Jewish Culture Quotes

• The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish, into a massive grave. This is why initiatives to revive Jewish culture in Poland is so important.

  Marek Belka

  Country, Holocaust, Important

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• I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Thinking, Law, Nineteen

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• But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.

  Theodore Bikel

  Artist, Toil, Culture

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• What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

  Theodore Bikel

  Moving, Pride, Other Cultures

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.

  Adolf Hitler

  Believe, Fighting, Evil

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous heritage of Jewish culture, theology, and wisdom.

  Deborah Lipstadt

  Sight, Generations, Culture

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• ...we see God working in terms of Jewish culture to reach Jews, yet, refusing to impose Jewish customs on Gentiles. Instead non-Jews are to come to God and relate to Him in terms of their own cultural vehicles. We see the Bible endorsing, then, a doctrine we call biblical sociocultural adequacy in which each culture is taken seriously but none advocated exclusively as the only one acceptable to God.

  Charles H. Kraft

  Taken, Biblical, Doctrine

  Charles H. Kraft (1996). “Anthropology for Christian Witness”

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• I think what Jewish culture taught me and what the - and Jewish culture now is everyone's culture - is all these embarrassing things, all these guilt-filled things, all these anxiety filled things are material.

  Robert Mankoff

  Thinking, Anxiety, Guilt

  "'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get It". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 24, 2014.

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• The Jewish culture - people that are Jewish have a certain cultural habit that they've formed and one of those habits is an appreciation of theater and music - these are cultural things one does associate with values that are promulgated by Jewish families. I think that's a good thing.

  Woody Allen

  Appreciation, Thinking, People

  CrankyCritic Interview, www.woodyallen.art.pl.

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• And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture, gay culture and Latino culture, we must recognize that this is a coherent culture, too. I think deafness is a disability for social constructionist reasons.

  Andrew Solomon

  Gay, Thinking, Culture

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent. But it was a great time to grow up, the '70s and '80s in Brooklyn, East Flatbush. It was culturally diverse: You had Italian culture, American culture, the Caribbean West Indian culture, the Hasidic Jewish culture. Everything was kind of like right there in your face. A lot of violence, you know, especially toward the '80s the neighborhood got really violent, but it made me who I am, it made me strong.

  Michael K. Williams

  Strong, Growing Up, Italian

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Islands, Class, Culture

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• In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.

  Orson Welles

  Mean, Men, Ideas

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• One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has taught Christians to think like Jews, and any modern man who has not learned to think as though he were a Jew can hardly be said to have learned to think at all.

  William E. Rees

  Christian, Men, Thinking

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• My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young boy and read the Bible, the Old Testament.

  Ziggy Marley

  Strong, Father, Boys

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Memories, War

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.5, Macmillan

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• Acceptance of race mixture was more developed in Arab culture than in Jewish culture.

  Ali Mazrui

  Acceptance, Race, Culture

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