Occupation: Novelist Birth: February 8, 1895 Death: May 4, 1972
In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American?.
You may even have Jews in your midst who did not learn their way of life from us, and did not inherit it from a Jewish forebear. We may have authenti….
A century of partial tolerance gave us Jews access to your world. In that period the great attempt was made, by advance guards of reconciliation, to ….
Jew and Gentile are two worlds, between you Gentiles and us Jews there lies an unbridgeable gulf...There are two life forces in the world Jewish and ….
We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain the destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our demands and needs. We will forever destroy because we….
To say that a schlemiel is a luckless person is to touch only the negative side. It is the schlemiel's avocation and profession to miss out on things….
You have your way of life, we ours. In your system of life we are essentially without 'honor.' In our system of life you are essentially without mora….
We belong to the One mastering God: you belong to the republic of playful gods..
We Jews are accused of being destroyers: whatever you put up, we tear down. It is true only in a relative sense. We are not iconoclasts deliberately:….
Years of observation and thought have given increasing strength to the belief that we Jews stand apart from you gentiles, that a primal duality break….
When Germany and England and America will long have lost their present identity or purpose, we shall still be strong in ours..
Wherever the Jew is found he is a problem, a source of unhappiness to himself and to those around him. Ever since he has been scattered in your midst….
Our Jewishness is not a creed, it is ourself, our totality. Indeed, it may be fairly said that the surest evidence of your lack of seriousness in rel….
There are two life-forces in the world I know: Jewish and gentile, ours and yours...I do not believe that this primal difference between gentile and ….