Michael Korda Quotes

As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that.

My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.

I had always known that I was Jewish - we celebrated the holidays, we went to a synagogue - but I had never known that I was supposed to feel ashamed about it.

I have been aware since my youth that I am a Hebrew through my mother, and that is something that has played a subtle but important role in my development.

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.

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.

My grandparents and great-grandparents were classic East European/Russian Jewry. Quasky was the name until Grandpa Quasky changed it in 1948.

I'm not a practicing Jew but my great-grandparents were. It's part of our family history.

In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I was a Jew. I was then a transplanted Englishman in America, married, with one son and, though unconsoled by any religion, a nonbelieving member of two Christian churches. On hearing the tidings, I was pleased to find that I was pleased.

I am Jewish and proud of this culturally and ethnically - the ways in which I was born this way and am happy with whom I am.

I've always felt as much outside the Jewish experience as in it. It astonished my family that I wrote about things Jewish.

When writing 'Behind the Mask,' I opened up on every level. Hopefully, even the more knowledgeable fans, who really know me, will be surprised when they read it.

Until 2005, France had the only senior Catholic prelate in modern times who was born Jewish and still considered himself culturally Jewish: Cardinal Lustiger.

It matters a great deal that I come from a Jewish background.

I was born in Israel. My parents came in 1925.

I'm not completely Jewish, if you know what I mean. I know people want me to be. My father is Jewish. My mother isn't.

There was no question of ever sending us to Jewish schools... They wanted us out there. They wanted us to be lawyers and doctors. They wanted us out of the religious thing, apart from that ethnic bonding.

My mother is Jewish. We celebrated all the Jewish holidays at home.

Now, you may not have known this from my name, Lopez-Cantera, but I'm Jewish.

I grew up attending a Conservative day school, Solomon Schechter, until I was about 14, and going to a Reconstructionist synagogue.

I'm from New Orleans, and I have a French last name - although I have no real relationship with my last name because it's not my name. I don't know my name.

I guess you could say I'm kind of Jewish but not really.

I identify myself as what I am. I'm half Jewish, like Proust. I have no other way to put it.

My great grandfather was the last practicing Jew in my family. He died in 1982.

Judaism is a big part of my background, obviously, and my reality.