Jews have had to carry arou... by Janet Suzman, a South African Actress

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“Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.”

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Janet Suzman

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Name: Janet Suzman

Nationality: South African

Date of Birth: Feb 9, 1939

Profession: Actress

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I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart.

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It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight.

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My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

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Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

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One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

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