Tag - Yiddish Quotes

Discover the most impactful and inspirational quotes from the Yiddish Quotes category. Here, you’ll find a diverse collection of motivation, wisdom, love, laughter, or a deeper understanding of life, our curated selection of quotes has something for everyone. Perfect for fans and those looking for motivation, our collection of Yiddish Quotes will inspire and resonate with you.

Stephen Greenblatt

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

Jr Roy Blount

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

– Roy Blount, Jr

Robert B Weide

On ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm,’ I remember that sometime in Season 3, there was a Yiddish phrase, ‘Kinahura,’ and a friend of mine who was Jewish said that the closed captioning said ‘Can of Hurrah.’ And I thought ‘Oh, God.’ I never had bothered to see the transcripts but from that point on all the transcripts had to come to me and I checked them.

– Robert B Weide

Randy Rainbow

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

– Randy Rainbow

Nathan Englander

I am a fifth-generation American, but from a young age, I went to yeshiva. I spent 12 hours a day with rabbis, and I think in Yiddish. To this day, I have to go back and unravel my writing and polish it so everyone doesn’t sound like an old Jewish woman.

– Nathan Englander

Mike Myers

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

– Mike Myers

Michael Chabon

I abandoned my second novel completely. Writing ‘Kavalier & Clay,’ I had several moments of utter collapse. Same with ‘The Yiddish Policemen’s Union.’

– Michael Chabon

Mandy Patinkin

The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.

– Mandy Patinkin

Mandy Patinkin

Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

– Mandy Patinkin

Joel Grey

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

Joel Grey

I never learned to speak Yiddish, ever.

– Joel Grey

Joel Grey

My father was Mickey Katz, who worked with Spike Jones and then went on to improvise some successful Yiddish parodies, some of which I perform. My favorite was ‘Geshray of the Vilde Kotchke,’ his version of ‘Cry of the Wild Goose.’

– Joel Grey

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