Arthur Keith Quotes

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.

To be a Jew is a destiny.

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

When I was growing up, I didn't know who Jewish people were, what it was to be Jewish.

I'm no more or less Jewish than any other Jew. Israel has survived because we haven't forgot our Judaism, but there are some Israelis who did forget.

I've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.

Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue - identity: what does it mean to be an American Jew?

As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.

I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I'm happy to be one - or proud to be one.

The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

If you research history, I think we are all Jewish. It's the original culture.

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

The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.

My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.

Jew Deal

Israel always has a special filter to look at things, and that is the attitude toward Jews.

I am very proud of being Jewish.

I'm a Jew. I think every Jew is dark in certain ways.

I'm proud to be Jewish.

'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.

I love the nation of Israel. I love Jewish people. My King was Jewish, and I embrace that.

Jewishness is a very big part of my identity. I am a proud Jew, I would say, who doesn't practice very actively.

To have knowledge of Judaism and to be a religious Jew or an interested Jew, is to have a doorway into a worldview that is entirely alien to the rest of the world's worldview.

We are committed to raising our children as Jews. I knew that it had to start with me at a greater level, at a deeper level, if it was going to be a meaningful example to them.