8 Arthur Hertzberg Quotes for You to Enjoy

Arthur Hertzberg

Polish Theologian

Born: Jun 9, 1921

Died: Apr 17, 2006

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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. Arthur Hertzberg

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Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx. Arthur Hertzberg

I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it. Arthur Hertzberg

Fight Anti-Semitism Meal Think Ticket Organizations

I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in. Arthur Hertzberg

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The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense! Arthur Hertzberg

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Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about. Arthur Hertzberg

Changes About Nobody Making Any Process Specific

Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening. Arthur Hertzberg

Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad. Arthur Hertzberg

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