Bears Quote by I. L. Peretz

Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For…

— Linda Barnes

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 variety-of syntax,…

— Israel Shenker

To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.

— Cynthia Ozick

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

I never learned to speak Yiddish, ever.

— Joel Grey

The Yiddish mentality is not haughty. It does not take victory for granted. It does not demand and command but it muddles through, sneaks…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

On a crowded bus in Israel, a mother was speaking to her son in Yiddish. An Israeli woman reprimanded her. "You should be speaking…

— Kirk Douglas

When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when…

— Mel Brooks

Hebrew is the most wonderful of languages, a language of a thousand antonyms, hard and strong as steel, while soft and gleaming as gold.

— Ze'ev Jabotinsky

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

— Alice Walker

There's a basic problem with the history of the Holocaust. The people who do it don't know the necessary languages.

— Timothy D. Snyder