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“...Soviet support for Jewish culture was part of a larger plan to brainwash and coerce national minorities into submitting to the Soviet regime--and for Jews, it came at a very specific price. From the beginning, the regime eliminated anything that celebrated Jewish "nationality" that didn't suit its needs. Jews were awesome, provided they weren't practicing the Jewish religion, studying traditional Jewish texts, using Hebrew, or supporting Zionism. The Soviet Union thus pioneered a versatile gaslighting slogan, which it later spread through its client states in the developing world and which remains popular today: it was not antisemitic, merely anti-Zionist. (In the process of not being antisemitic and merely being anti-Zionist, the regime managed to persecute, imprison, torture, and murder thousands of Jews.) What's left of Jewish culture once you surgically remove religious practice, traditional texts, Hebrew and Zionism?”
― Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

“You are either anti-semite or sapiens, you cannot be both.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“Naples, however, did not need buskers: the cacophony of frenzied traffic made its own music with melodic beeping of horns in a repertoire of rhythms and beats reflecting driversâ€� moods. Stravinsky might have composed the music as a choreographer might have choreographed the vehiclesâ€� dances â€� zigzagging, twisting, turning, stopping and starting.”
― Juliet Ayres, A Glimmer Through the Breach

“We talk a good deal about Jewish Art. We ask one another if there is such a thing. We deplore that there isn’t any; and regret that it is so poor or so unnational, or so uncharacteristic…We claim distinguished artists as Jews, and then debate their identity.

Quote found in "From Meidelach to Matriarchs~ A Journal”
― Rose Kohler