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- I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive. — Theodore Bikel
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever — Howard Fast
- 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
- 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
- I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it. — Joseph H. Greenberg
- 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
- 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
- Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish. — Mike Myers
- Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater. — Mandy Patinkin