Nathan Englander Quotes

I'm just tired of people saying I'm a self-hating Jew because I'm critical of Israel or make fun of old Jewish ladies. I do not hate myself. And Jews who criticize Israel aren't necessarily mentally ill.

I've begun to think like a Jew, to feel like a Jew.

I have a very strong sense of who I am as a Jew and a strong sense of belonging.

I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.

I'm certainly not a practicing Jew. I would never claim, 'I'm Jewish.' That's not the first and foremost thing in my mind, as far as who I am as a person.

As a Jew, support for Israel is in my DNA.

For those who share my view that the Jews as a people have a right to self-determination, Zionism as a national movement of the Jewish people is the embodiment of this very right, which its opponents want to deny.

The malady of the Jews is that they don't see territory as part of their identity.

When one set of Jews labels another set of Jews 'anti-Semitic,' they are trying to monopolize the right to speak in the name of the Jews. So the allegation of anti-Semitism is actually a cover for an intra-Jewish quarrel.

Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentable stereotype to make large generalizations about all Jews, and to presume they all share the same political commitments?

All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.

I feel that I am completely in solidarity with Jews in the world, because I know what it is to be a Jew. I've seen what it is; I am myself of Jewish origin, and therefore I can only be fully in support of the idea that the Jews, after all they've suffered, need a country where they are at home.

When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is.

I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.

I take satisfaction ... in the progress of the Zionist movement.

I am a Zionist!

The Jews are the most formidable and most remarkable race which has ever appeared in the world.

What matters is not what the goyim say, but what the Jews do

I admit I think it is immoral for Jews to live in the Diaspora.

I always find that the more Jewish you are, the more people respect you.

I don't think Hank Greenberg thought of himself as the first Jewish baseball player - he was a baseball player who happened to be Jewish. I'm an artist who happens to be Latin.

If, for 2,000 years, you dress up differently, believe in a different God, celebrate different holidays, and on top of it insist on telling everyone that you're completely different than them, ultimately they'll believe you.