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
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
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
Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish. — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
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
I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive. — Theodore Bikel 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
