Yiddish Quotes

When you have a Jewish mother who has a very strong Jewish family, it's very ethnic in its practices. Eating brisket, the food and the family and the interconnectedness for better or worse.

Isaac Singer always wrote in Yiddish. He was so unsure of his English at the beginning that he was easy to edit and he learned fast.

Romanian-Yiddish cooking has killed more Jews than Hitler

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

I spend my time hearing a lot of schmoozers discuss the tariff and … the mails from Paducah to Scholarie.

The way other kids would watch 'The Little Mermaid' or 'Sesame Street,' I would watch 'Fiddler on the Roof.'

Being Jewish is a culture and a religion; we have food, music, and land specific to us.

I never learned to speak Yiddish, ever.

Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever

I speak a kind of Hapsburg language.

There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of love... In a figurative way, Yiddish is the wise and humble language of us all, the idiom of a frightened and hopeful humanity.

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