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In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm Russian Jewish. And I had to grow up really quickly.

— Margarita Levieva

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

— Delmore Schwartz

I'll tell you now that I hate myself for many reasons, but being Jewish is not one of them.

— Clive Sinclair

I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.

— Rhea Perlman

There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.

— Paullina Simons

As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that.

— Eugene Jarecki

I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people.

— David Icke

✗Opposing Perspectives

Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.

— Anton Rubinstein

When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is.

— Antonio Sabato, Jr.