Always Quote by Robert Giroux

The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had…

— Eric Bana

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

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

I never learned to speak Yiddish, ever.

— Joel Grey

Writing in modern Hebrew is a bit like playing chamber music inside a huge, empty cathedral. If you are not very careful with the…

— Amos Oz

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

Jews like to write and sing. In America, a lot of us have been eager to show that we're part of American culture. But…

— Ezra Furman

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've done songs in other languages. I know how hard it is.

— Luis Fonsi

No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to…

— Thomas Jefferson

Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.

— Etgar Keret

I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and Jewish boys…

— Israel Horovitz

I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated…

— Robert Frost