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Israel Shenker has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.
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Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every…
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America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered…
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In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward…
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At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when…
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God's greatest blessing is children. The only problem is that you have to support them. It's a problem, not a disadvantage.
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A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to…
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It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or…
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Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God's commandments because they come from…
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Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of…
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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…
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A second-century rabbi said that if 999 angels gave a bad account of a man and one angel reported favorably, God would…
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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
— Theodore Bikel
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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
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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
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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.
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Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever
— Howard Fast
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.
— Mike Myers
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
— Mandy Patinkin
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