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Definition of Jew

Jew

Originally, one belonging to the tribe or kingdom of Judah; after the return from the Babylonish captivity, any member of the new state; a Hebrew; an Israelite.

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Jew Quotations

Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?
Sigmund Freud

Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
Milton Berle

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
Golda Meir

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
Golda Meir

If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
Billy Connolly

I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Steven Spielberg

If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you.
Bernard Malamud

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.
Felix Frankfurter

For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be.
Lionel Blue

I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.
Lionel Blue

We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!
Yasser Arafat

Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy!
Tom Metzger

I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
Theodore Bikel

I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.
Anne Rice

Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.
Philip Zimbardo

When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism.
Jean-Marie Le Pen

I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
Bebe Neuwirth

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.
Anita Brookner

I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
Barney Frank

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.
Stefan Zweig

It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.
Julius Streicher

The Jew always lives from the blood of other peoples, he needs such murders and such sacrifices.
Julius Streicher

The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch.
Julius Streicher

Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims.
Amos Oz

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.
Isaac Mizrahi

One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.
Joseph Epstein

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?
Heinrich Heine

For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.
Meir Kahane

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.
Joel Coen

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.
Marilyn Hacker

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Jew Translations

Jew in French is Juif
jew in German is Jude
Jew in Italian is giudeo
Jew in Swedish is jude

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