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"Yiddish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the stocks, of course, are equally interested in fiction or gifted at it: the Russian Jews have the most notable novels to their credit. Though these are generally composed by men not born in this country, in Yiddish, and so belong to the history of that most international of literatures, certain of them, having been translated, belong obviously as well as actually to the common treasure of the nation. Shalom Aleichem's Jewish Children and Leon Kobrin's A Lithuanian Village surely belong, though ...
— Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) • Carl Van Doren
... which she shared in common with the ill-fated queen. She was a most accomplished woman and a clever linguist. She could write and speak fluently French, Italian, Arabic, and Portuguese. German she knew also, though not so well, and she had more than a smattering of Yiddish. She was well-read in the literature of all these (save Yiddish, of course), yet never was a woman less of a "Blue-stocking." She was a brilliant talker, full of wit and charm in her conversation, and there was nothing she liked better than to relate, in her inimitable way, some of her many ...
— The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II • Isabel Lady Burton & W. H. Wilkins |
Words linked to "Yiddish" : knish, parve, hutzpah, gonif, shmear, shnorrer, knocker, putz, meshugge, shmuck, schmegegge, shlep, shmaltz, schemozzle, shemozzle, schtik, schlemiel, shlimazel, kvetch, goniff, tsoris, shegetz, meshugaas, schmear, schnook, shnook, shikse, chachka, shmegegge, yenta, klutz, tchotchkeleh, mishegaas, megillah, chutzpa, tsuris, schmalz, High German, chutzpanik, mishpachah, schnorrer, shtik, German, shmo, shiksa, schlepper, tsatske, pareve, German language, meshuga, schmeer, schmaltz, nosh, ganef, meshuggeneh, schmo, tchotchke, shmooze, mensch, tshatshke, shlepper, shtick, nebbech |
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