In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.
Jack Steinberger
EducationPowerChildrenMoreJewish
I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.
Kenneth Lonergan
EveryoneJewishAssumingBeforeMet
I was too Jewish for 'Flashdance.'
Jennifer Grey
JewishToo
In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of the minorities. That's my job as a king. We have for example a Jewish ambassador in the US and a Christian in the UK.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
JobKingDemocracyChristianJewish
I'm still ambiguously ethnic. I could be Persian - I could be anything. But I'm Italian and Jewish, so I'm a citizen of the world; that's what I prefer.
Justin Baldoni
WorldCitizenJewishAnythingEthnic
My family were finally kicked out of Egypt in 1965 for being Jewish. We managed to remain longer than most.
Andre Aciman
FamilyEgyptJewishOutBeingMost
Now, you may not have known this from my name, Lopez-Cantera, but I'm Jewish.
Carlos Lopez-Cantera
NameYouNowJewishMayKnown
My father died in 1957, just before I was born. My mother went to her Jewish aunt, who slammed the door in her face.
James McBride
FatherMotherDoorFaceBornJewish
I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
Mel Brooks
ReligionThinkJewishBecauseRather
Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.
Daniel Barenboim
GreatConflictNowJewishEurope
I've always felt as much outside the Jewish experience as in it. It astonished my family that I wrote about things Jewish.
Howard Jacobson
FamilyExperienceOutsideJewish
Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
Anita Diament
CommunityPracticeJewishAbout
Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
DreamsLightPeaceJewishIsrael
Preparing foods from other Jewish communities is broadening. It's interesting to sample the foods of other Jewish communities and see what they developed.
Gil Marks
InterestingJewishSeeSampleFoods
It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic.
Michael Baden
ManOverJewishGoingWhoIdentify
I'm this little Canadian Jewish girl, and I'm living my dream.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
GirlDreamLivingJewishLittle
Israel and our vicinity is an area that traditionally has little industry. The area is known for history, it's known for religious stories, it's known a bit for agriculture, but... neither was the Jewish population thinking about export industry, nor the Arab or Palestinian population.
Stef Wertheimer
HistoryThinkingAgricultureJewish
In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
Elie Wiesel
HistoryJewishCoincidences
The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complication.
Simon Schama
StoryExtraordinaryJewishWandering
I first came to Jewish-Catholic relations in 1963, while studying for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
David Novak
New YorkNewFirstStudyingJewish
Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.
Sholom Aleichem
GoodGodChildrenJewishPrepared
I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.
David Duchovny
MeHardJewishBuyAnythingHalf
I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.
Roald Hoffmann
FamilyHappyDarkJewishEurope
I'm Jewish. That's all. So I am in exile all the time. Wherever we go, we are in exile. Even in Israel, we are in exile.
Chantal Akerman
TimeI AmGoJewishWhereverIsrael
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