What to Say When They Say I'm Jewish
ROBERT: Can you speak more to that AHMED: Yeah the only thing American about me would be my passport (.) ... American what does that mean you're a Muslim living in America you hear people say I'm a Christian American I'm Jewish American ...
At a party, I'd be unlikely, unless I feel they could cope with the complexity of Jewish identity, [to say I'm Jewish]. I do occasionally say I'm Jewish, just for the simplicity of it. It's because it's such an important part of what ...
... of course, her conversion itself, epitomized in her final radical selfrenaming, can be seen as an embodied, futile attempt to escape from the stigma of Otherness and illustrates its power and durability as well as its centrality to ...
They said I'm Jewish. They called me Jewish. ... Since then, I'm Jewish, and I haven't the least idea what Jewish is. ... Jews, according to my Nazi uncle, say I'm totally Jewish; the Nazis evidently agree with the Jews. How nice they ...
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RF : What I say when people ask me that is that I'm Jewish and I'm a poet , but you could say I'm a poetic Jew as much as a Jewish poet . I think most people try to escape the constraints of those sorts of definitions .
Don't say anything, I think. Let it drop. Steve probably doesn't know I'm Jewish, and he doesn't have to find out. In junior high school I had spent a great deal of time in a largely Italian neighborhood and my stepdad is Italian.
These essays reveal that possible answers reflect the different social, intellectual, and political locations of those who are asking.
William Lloyd Warner and Leo Srole's ( 1945 ) study of ethnic groups in " Yankee City " remains the most complete discussion of the identity and experience of the second generation of this historical period . Warner and Srole describe a ...