Quotes About Howard Jacobson

To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventing it.

If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a person carrying a well-thumbed copy of 'Middlemarch' in his back pocket?

The Stop The War Coalition is a sort of home to Jew-haters because its hate music about Israel is so catchy.

Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability.

Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a single idea, belief system, religious faith or party.