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Quotes on Judaism & Israel: Lionel Trilling

On Being Jewish

“Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.”


Sources: Lionel Trilling 1928 notebook entry, published in the Partisan Review 50th Anniversary Edition, 1985.