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Top 10 Arthur Hertzberg Quotes (2025 Update)

Arthur Hertzberg Quote: “You save your soul by saving someone else’s body.”

1. “You save your soul by saving someone else’s body.”

— Arthur Hertzberg

Arthur Hertzberg Quote: “How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.”

2. “How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.”

— Arthur Hertzberg

Arthur Hertzberg Quote: “Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.”

3. “Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.”

— Arthur Hertzberg

Arthur Hertzberg Quote: “I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.”

4. “I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.”

— Arthur Hertzberg

Arthur Hertzberg Quote: “Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.”

5. “Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.”

— Arthur Hertzberg

Arthur Hertzberg Quote: “In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia. I didn’t spend enough time with my children. Now, when I get an all-important call, I sometimes say that I’m having lunch with my granddaughter. And I do not apologize.”

6. “In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia. I didn’t spend enough time with my children. Now, when I get an all-important call, I sometimes say that I’m having lunch with my granddaughter. And I do not apologize.”

— Arthur Hertzberg

Arthur Hertzberg Quote: “When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ardent atheist.”

7. “When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ardent atheist.”

— Arthur Hertzberg

Arthur Hertzberg Quote: “But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There’s always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.”

8. “But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There’s always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.”

— Arthur Hertzberg

Arthur Hertzberg Quote: “The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!”

9. “The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!”

— Arthur Hertzberg

Arthur Hertzberg Quote: “On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text – the authentic text for Jewish knowledge.”

10. “On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text – the authentic text for Jewish knowledge.”

— Arthur Hertzberg

Arthur Hertzberg Quote: “My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they’ve cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.”

11. “My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they’ve cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.”

— Arthur Hertzberg

Arthur Hertzberg Quote: “What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.”

12. “What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.”

— Arthur Hertzberg

Arthur Hertzberg Quote: “A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.”

13. “A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.”

— Arthur Hertzberg

Arthur Hertzberg Quote: “I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it.”

14. “I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it.”

— Arthur Hertzberg

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