Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater. — Mandy Patinkin 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
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
I love the Jews. 1. Yiddish is awesome. 2. Ive never met one who pushed their religion on me. — Philip DeFranco 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
“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
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
There are nineteen words in Yiddish that convey gradations of disparagement, from a mild, fluttery helplessness to a state of downright, irreconcilable… — S. J. Perelman 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
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
In Yiddish, we say, 'Nisht ahin un nisht aher.' It's neither here, it's neither there. I get more nerves than on anything… — Jeffrey Tambor 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“Rubenfeld spoke no Hebrew. His mind was racing to come up with something—anything—that these wild-eyed dirt farmers would understand. He threw his… — Robert Gandt Copy Share Image
I'd be washing my dishes listening to Yiddish, I went to sleep listening to Yiddish and woke up listening to Yiddish. It… — Shira Haas Copy Share Image
Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead… — Linda Barnes Copy Share Image
In his 70s, when I was in my 40s, my father still read me the stories he wrote about his childhood. His… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“husk or shell that has grown up around a spark of holiness, masking its light" (203): Michael Wex, Born to Kvetch: Yiddish… — Diane Ackerman 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 am a fifth-generation American, but from a young age, I went to yeshiva. I spent 12 hours a day with rabbis,… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“My Grandmother Bella would say in Yiddish, "Gouta Zeh,Gouta Zeh,Let The Other One Be Right!" My Italian friend Nick's Grandmother said,"It is… — Grandma Bella and Belli Copy Share Image
