#yiddish

It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#coasters #humor #stories #things #those

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

— Mike Myers

#i #know #language #like #linda

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#any #clearly #english #goes #i

Az me hot gelt, iz men klug un shain un men ken gut zingen If you have money, you are wise and good-looking and can sing well too ↗

— Yiddish expression

#yiddish #men

I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it. ↗

— Joseph Greenberg

#came #could #family #father #heard

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#father #life-long #line #long #long story

I don't care if you care, I retorted. But in my religion, we're taught to admit our mistakes and to apologize for them...Oh, and there's one other thing I'm sorry about, I added. I should've spit in your eye and called you a szhlob weeks ago. ↗

— Amy Fellner Dominy

#judaism #nerve #yiddish #religion

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#chance #determined #fighting #give #i