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Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.

I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.

I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

Our people represent a tapestry of interwoven identities embodying the rich diversity of what it means to be Jewish.

Having grown up in a Catholic family, while I felt like I was never conscious of any blatant anti-Semitism, I was aware of a slightly insidious, us-versus-them mentality. A lot of my best friends and early girlfriends were Jewish, and I encountered what was more of a suburban small-mindedness, of people needing to defend their tribe.

The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture.

It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.