I love the Jews. 1. Yiddish is awesome. 2. Ive never met one who pushed their religion on me. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“LIFE is the biggest bargain you can get.You get it for FREE! Yiddish saying” — Yiddish Copy Share Image
Growing up in California, my best friend was Morris Rabinowitz and we often went to the Yiddish Theater. — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
“He was distressed to learn that the Pottery Barn Kids gift registry did not extend to children's books in Italian or Yiddish.” — Sylvain Reynard 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
“The tongue-in-cheek Yiddish-English “translation” for R.S.V.P. is “Remember to Send Vedding Presents.” — Anita Diamant Copy Share Image
If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them… — Albert Einstein 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
“It’s Yiddish. Like…Ikh hob dikh lib.” Evie narrowed her eyes in suspicion. “What does that mean?” Sam smiled. “Maybe one day I’ll… — Libba Bray 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
Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
On a crowded bus in Israel, a mother was speaking to her son in Yiddish. An Israeli woman reprimanded her. "You should… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
I know very little about my great grandparents, who came through Ellis Island in the early twentieth century, settled in Baltimore, and… — Claire Saffitz 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
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
I tended to listen to doo-wop, but my grandmother would always have the radio on all day and she'd start with Yiddish… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
On 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' I remember that sometime in Season 3, there was a Yiddish phrase, 'Kinahura,' and a friend of mine… — Robert B. Weide 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
“Love great first lines and paragraphs. From The Yiddish Policemen's Union: Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any… — Michael Chabon 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
In another project I worked on just a few years ago, a staging of Peter and the Wolf, which I translated into… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions… — I. L. Peretz Copy Share Image
Even though I loved the song [My Yiddish Momme] and it was a sensational hit every time I sang it, I was… — Sophie Tucker Copy Share Image
“The noble old synagogue had been profaned and turned into a stable by the Nazis, and left open to the elements by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I work in Hebrew. Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages. Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor. — Jerry Leiber 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
The Yiddish language is so rich and unusual that I've always been hooked on its sounds, although I don't speak it. — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
![“Even though I loved the song [My Yiddish Momme] and it was a sensational hit every time I sang it, I was always careful to use it only when I knew the majority of the house would understand Yiddish. However, you didn't have to be a Jew to be moved by 'My Yiddish Momme.' 'Mother' in any language…” quote by Sophie Tucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/978/sophie-tucker-30883_careful_even-though-i-loved-the-song-my-yiddish_1564901.jpg)
