Isaac Singer always wrote in Yiddish. He was so unsure of his English at the beginning that he was easy to edit… — Robert Giroux Copy Share Image
Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish. — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it. — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
“Grinning, he grabbed his fisherman’s cap and coat. “I love you,” he whispered quietly. “Ikh hob dikh lib.” He kissed Evie’s head.… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Donald Trump did his usual softball interview on "Fox News" where the interviewer agreed with Trump that using that Yiddish vulgarity is… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When my father came out on stage wearing a big cowboy hat and a shirt lettered 'Bar Mitzvah Ranch' to sing 'Home… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
My father was Mickey Katz, who worked with Spike Jones and then went on to improvise some successful Yiddish parodies, some of… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
The Yiddish mentality is not haughty. It does not take victory for granted. It does not demand and command but it muddles… — 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
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
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
“Something always happened, you see. A Yiddish song on Hanukkah, a British rabbi's prayer on the radio, some kindness on a train… — Edith Hahn Beer a Copy Share Image
The truth is that what the great religions preached, the Yiddish-speaking people of the ghettos practiced day in and day out. They… — Isaac Bashevis Singer 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
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 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
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
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
“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
“The tongue-in-cheek Yiddish-English “translation” for R.S.V.P. is “Remember to Send Vedding Presents.” — Anita Diamant Copy Share Image
If you will tell me to have a conversation in Yiddish, I won't, unfortunately know how to do it. But I will… — Shira Haas Copy Share Image
I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive. — Theodore Bikel 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)
