Emma Lazarus Quotes

The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.

It is an open war until the elimination of Israel and until the death of the last Jew on earth.

European anti-Semitism goes much further back than to the partition of Palestine and the establishment of Israel in 1948. It even goes further back than the Holocaust.

Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world.

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.

Pave the Arab roads with the skulls of the Jews.

The Jewish problem

Genocidal Anti-Semite

Anti-Semitism is the unifying element of the reconstruction of Germany.

Since the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is no longer respectable. It was in the 1920s and '30s, but the Holocaust obviously changed that.

I think we have reached the point where we can state definitively, that Nazis are bad people.

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.

The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.

Better than the rest of us, they [the Jews] sensed what was ahead for their people.

The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever.

The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.

I saw the most frightening, most depressing sight I had ever seen - a row of stores with Stars of David and the word 'Jude' painted on them, and inside, behind half-empty counters, people in a daze, cringing like they didn't know what hit them and didn't know where the next blow would come from. Hitler had been in power only six months, and his boycott was already in full effect. I hadn't been so wholly conscious of being a Jew since my bar mitzvahs, and it was the first time since I'd had the measles that I was too sick to eat.

The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again.

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.

At my advanced age, I know I am not an anti-Semite, not even vaguely or remotely, but others would seem to know better, as false accusers always do.

I want to remind people that the Nazis weren't able to take the Jews to the crematoriums immediately. The German people wouldn't have allowed for it. Instead, the Nazis had to change public opinion. They marginalized the Jewish people, disparaged them, and made them objects of contempt.

There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that taboo seems to have been broken with impunity.