Jewish History Quotes
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Jewish History Quotes & Sayings
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I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.
— Peter Eisenman
You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.
— Fay Godwin
Our very eyesAre sometimes, like our judgments, blind. — William Shakespeare
Use your notebook to breathe in the world around you.
— Ralph Fletcher
I find it very hard to write about Jewish history.
— Simon Schama
Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.
— Daniel Libeskind
I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.
— Abby Wambach
It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium.
— Simon Schama
Jewish history is never simply about the Jews, but always about their relationship with the rest of society.
— Abigail Green
If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.
— Shlomo Sand
My family history, like that of many Polish, German and Jewish families from Central Europe in the 20th century, is complex.
— Donald Tusk
We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting
— Charles Bukowski
Zionism is the most stupendous fallacy in Jewish history
— Henry Morgenthau, Sr.
The 1924 Immigration Restriction Act was the primary tool used by FDR to keep Jewish refugees from reaching US shores.
— A.E. Samaan
Every week I have a disaster in my kitchen. The fire alarm goes off repeatedly. But it doesn't stop me being adventurous.
— Paul O'Grady
There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.
— Romain Gary
You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.
— Tony Judt
In Britain, these Jewish refugees were greeted with a mixture of grudging acceptance by some and open hostility by others.
— Thomas Harding
In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
— Elie Wiesel
To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Freemasonry is a Jewish establishment, whose history, grades, official appointments, passwords, and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end
— Isaac Mayer Wise
Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.
— Elie Wiesel
Trouble is God leading you to your destiny.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you research history, I think we are all Jewish. It's the original culture.
— Amar'e Stoudemire
I clawed through a thick web of the culture's consciousness that I hadn't known existed.
— Patti Smith
...the history of the Broadway musical is the history of short Jewish men yelling at each other.
— Jack Viertel
