Kage Baker Quotes

I understood when I was quite small that there were two special things about the Jews. That we'd endured for over 3,000 years despite everything that had been thrown at us, and that we had an extraordinarily dramatic story to tell.

I knew that as a pharmacy student I would obtain military deferment. As I was of Jewish origin, this meant that I would not have to serve in a forced labor unit of the Hungarian army.

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.

I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.

The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.

The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.

Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.

Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

There will never be another Holocaust in the history of the Jewish people. Never again, never again!

A great part Jewish history was occupied by the simple attempt of Jews to stay alive.

The Jews were burnt all the way from the Mediterranean into Germany, but not in Avignon, for the pope protected them there.

Ireland has claims on your ancient race, it is the only country that I know of unsullied by any one act of persecution of the Jews

History of Jews is full of deception, trickery, rebellion, oppression, evil and corruption. They always seek to cause mischief on the earth and Allah loves not the mischief-makers.

The German mass murder of the Jews... brought my Jewishness to the surface.

Us Jews are nomadic people.

I have probably become a lot more Zionist than I used to be. Jews have a history of being persecuted over a long, long period of time so I think it is absolutely right to have a country that is a Jewish state.

Polish culture has always had a strong anti-Semitic undercurrent. There has been awful persecution.

My grandparents left the Pale of Settlement at the border of western Russia and Eastern Europe in the early 1900s, fleeing anti-Semitism and hoping to make a better life for their children in America.

Given the long history of global anti-Semitism and continued calls for the destruction of Israel, it's tough to be a Jew.

Anti-Semitism has been a fact of European life for more than 2,000 years.

For me, why would a Jew want to go anywhere in history ever? I'm only going to have to run.

I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while my dearest friends have been knocked down or have fallen into a gutter somewhere out in the cold night. I get frightened when I think of close friends who have now been delivered into the hands of the cruelest brutes that walk the earth. And all because they are Jews!