Charm Quote by Israel Shenker

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

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, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land…

— I. L. Peretz

If you will tell me to have a conversation in Yiddish, I won't, unfortunately know how to do it. But I will understand a…

— Shira Haas

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

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

There's not one Yiddish word that is not perfectly funny.

— Randy Rainbow

Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever

— Howard Fast

What happens when you speak colloquial Hebrew is you switch between registers all the time. So in a typical sentence, three words are biblical,…

— Etgar Keret

I never learned to speak Yiddish, ever.

— Joel Grey

It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

— Mike Myers

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