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Jewish people

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Jews, or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating from the Israelites of ancient Israel and Judah. They traditionally adhere to Judaism. Jewish ethnicity, religion, and community are highly interrelated, as Judaism is an ethnic religion, though many ethnic Jews do not practice it. Jews regard converts to Judaism as members of the Jewish nation, pursuant to the long-standing conversion process.

Notable quotes

“The fundamental principle of the Hebraic commonwealth was that there are great moral laws not dependent on the will of monarch, oligarchy, aristocracy or public assembly.”
— Lyman Abbott, Life and Literature of Ancient Hebrews (1910)
“After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.”
— Morton Feldman, Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman (2000)
“The immemorial ingratitude of rulers and commonwealths is proverbial. Especially common is ingratitude to Israel — the People that has achieved so much of eternal worth, but has rarely succeeded in winning gratitude.”
— Joseph H. Hertz, The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (One-volume edition), p. 206
“Indeed I am a man, a Jew having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but having been brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been trained according to the exactness of the ancestral law, being a zealot of God, even as you all are today. I persecuted this Way as far as death, binding and giving over both men and women to prisons”
— Saint Paul, Acts chapter 12 : 3-4
“Judaism is communism, internationalism, the universal brotherhood of man, the emancipation of the working class and the human society. It is with these spiritual weapons that the Jews will conquer the world and the human race. The races and the nations will cheerfully submit to the spiritual power of Judaism, and all will become Jews.”
— Harry Waton, A Program For The Jews And An Answer To All Anti Semites, Astoria Press, 1939. p. 100
“The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.”
— George Eliot, Daniel Deronda (1876), Book VI, Chapter XLII

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Overview

Jews, or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating from the Israelites of ancient Israel and Judah. They traditionally adhere to Judaism. Jewish ethnicity, religion, and community are highly interrelated, as Judaism is an ethnic religion, though many ethnic Jews do not practice it. Jews regard converts to Judaism as members of the Jewish nation, pursuant to the long-standing conversion process.

Notable quotes

“The fundamental principle of the Hebraic commonwealth was that there are great moral laws not dependent on the will of monarch, oligarchy, aristocracy or public assembly.”
— Lyman Abbott, Life and Literature of Ancient Hebrews (1910)
“After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.”
— Morton Feldman, Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman (2000)
“The immemorial ingratitude of rulers and commonwealths is proverbial. Especially common is ingratitude to Israel — the People that has achieved so much of eternal worth, but has rarely succeeded in winning gratitude.”
— Joseph H. Hertz, The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (One-volume edition), p. 206
“Indeed I am a man, a Jew having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but having been brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been trained according to the exactness of the ancestral law, being a zealot of God, even as you all are today. I persecuted this Way as far as death, binding and giving over both men and women to prisons”
— Saint Paul, Acts chapter 12 : 3-4
“Judaism is communism, internationalism, the universal brotherhood of man, the emancipation of the working class and the human society. It is with these spiritual weapons that the Jews will conquer the world and the human race. The races and the nations will cheerfully submit to the spiritual power of Judaism, and all will become Jews.”
— Harry Waton, A Program For The Jews And An Answer To All Anti Semites, Astoria Press, 1939. p. 100
“The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.”
— George Eliot, Daniel Deronda (1876), Book VI, Chapter XLII

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.