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To be jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. and if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

-Joyce Carol Oates

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To Be Jewish Is To Be Specifically

Joyce Carol Oates

To be jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. and if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

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If only one country, for whatever reason, tolerates a jewish family in it, that family will become the germ center for fresh sedition. if one little jewish boy survives without any jewish education, with no synagogue and no hebrew school, it [judaism] is in his soul. even if there had never been a synagogue or a jewish school or an old testament, the jewish spirit would still exist and exert its influence. it has been there from the beginning and there is no jew, not a single one, who does not personify it.

I don't really know of the jewish tradition of comedy, only the jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. that, to me, is jewish.

I strongly believe that a small jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of jewish people worked with non-jews to create the first world war, the russian revolution, and the second world war. this jewish/non-jewish elite used the first world war to secure the balfour declaration and the principle of the jewish state of israel.

I don’t know much about history, and i wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. it means nothing to me. history is more or less bunk. it's tradition. we don't want tradition. we want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

Jewish voters care. they want someone who's good on israel and who's good on jewish issues. but they also want somebody who's going to be pro-choice and pro-gun control and pro-gay rights. to the vast majority of the jewish community, just being good on israel or on jewish issues is not enough.

When i was kid, yeah, my family, my parents wanted me to marry a jewish girl because that was what they taught their children, and thought it would be an easier life for me to raise a jewish kid. and i have a jewish wife, i have a jewish kid. they seem pretty happy about it.

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