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In WASP families, if you don't get along with someone, you have as little to do with them as possible. In Jewish families, you move next door, to make them as miserable as possible.


Doreen Orion


#culture #culture-critique #family #family-drama #family-relationships

Die Judenfrage,' it used to be called, even by Jews. 'The Jewish Question.' I find I quite like this interrogative formulation, since the question—as Gertrude Stein once famously if terminally put it—may be more absorbing than the answer. Of course one is flirting with calamity in phrasing things this way, as I learned in school when the Irish question was discussed by some masters as the Irish 'problem.' Again, the word 'solution' can be as neutral as the words 'question' or 'problem,' but once one has defined a people or a nation as such, the search for a resolution can become a yearning for the conclusive. Endlösung: the final solution.


Christopher Hitchens


#gertrude-stein #holocaust #irish-question #jewish-question #jews

[F]or me, being a Jew means feeling the tragedy of yesterday as an inner oppression. On my left forearm I bear the Auschwitz number; it reads more briefly than the Pentateuch or the Talmud and yet provides more thorough information. It is also more binding than basic formulas of Jewish existence. If to myself and the world, including the religious and nationally minded Jews, who do not regard me as one of their own, I say: I am a Jew, then I mean by that those realities and possibilities that are summed up in the Auschwitz number.


Jean Améry


#jewish-identity #shoah #holocaust

I am hungry for power, but not to lord over others; only to own myself.


Deborah Feldman


#freedom-of-expression #freedom-of-religion #hunger #jewish #jews

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.


Thomas Carlyle


#carlyle #change #christian #comparison #direction

‎I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others.


David Benioff


#history #inspirational #jewish #jews #pessimism

The Jews are known for their perseverance and this is what helps them achieve their goals. Perseverance means continuous persistence in a course of action, a purpose, in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.


H.W. Charles


#money #wealth #wealth-accumulation #wealth-building #wealth-creation

Jews have been the most successful and productive nation in history.


H.W. Charles


#money #secrets #success #wealth #wealth-creation

The Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization.


W.A.R. Gibb


#atheist #christian #civilization #complete #earth

There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million.


David Ben-Gurion


#eleven #expect #here #i #i can






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