The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English,… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I have heard from my father and mother all the answers that faith in God could offer to those who doubt and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language.… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
“I don't care if you care, I retorted. But in my religion, we're taught to admit our mistakes and to apologize for… — Amy Fellner Dominy Copy Share Image
The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Well, you have children so you know: little children little troubles, big children, big troubles - it's a saying in Yiddish. Maybe… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
What happens when you speak colloquial Hebrew is you switch between registers all the time. So in a typical sentence, three words… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way. — Joy Behar Copy Share Image
My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
There's an expression in Yiddish, which is "der gelernte naar" - a "learned fool." You can know a great deal, you can… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
