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"Yiddish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... its entire satisfaction. If, however, the Jews are now to be placed in a special category, differentiated and kept apart from their fellow-citizens by having autonomous institutions, by the maintenance of the German-Yiddish dialect, which keeps alive the Teuton anti-Rumanian spirit, and by being authorized to regard the Rumanian state as an inferior tribunal, from which an appeal always lies to a foreign body—the government ...
— The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference • Emile Joseph Dillon
... Street IS something out of the ordinary, as down-town thoroughfares go. It is the principal highway to that remote Yiddish country whose capital is William H. Seward Square, and the entire millinery and feminine tailoring business of the lower East Side is centred at this its upper end. In the one short block from Chatham Square to Market Street there are twenty-seven millinery establishments—count ...
— The Gates of Chance • Van Tassel Sutphen
... Beomer" comes round, and they may go out into the open, armed from head to foot, imagine that they are giants who can overcome the strongest foe and reduce the world to ruins. All at once they grow brave. They step forward eagerly, singing songs that are a curious mixture of Yiddish ...
— Jewish Children • Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich
... in Russian and Yiddish," he remarked, noting my surprise. "I am going to get Polton to photograph a couple of specimen pages—is that ...
— John Thorndyke's Cases • R. Austin Freeman
... and was followed by the edition of Constantinople, in 1520, arranged in chapters and enlarged, and an edition of Basel, in 1541, containing a Latin preface and a Latin translation of the greater part. In 1546 a printed Yiddish edition appeared in Zurich, and in the Ghetto it retains its popularity to the present day. Other editions and translations have followed. Steinschneider has noted that as late as 1873 an abstract of the Arabic translation together with the Arabic version ...
— Josephus • Norman Bentwich
... of Hungary, and Italians of Whitechapel mingled in the throng. Near East and Far East rubbed shoulders. Pidgin English contested with Yiddish for the ownership of some tawdry article offered by an auctioneer whose nationality defied conjecture, save that always some branch of his ancestry had drawn nourishment from the soil of ...
— The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer
... Roumanian Rivington Street. Russian Seward Park, Rivington Street, Hamilton Fish Park, 96th Street, Chatham Square. Slovak Webster. Spanish Jackson Square. Swedish 125th Street, 58th Street. Servian Muhlenberg. Yiddish Rivington Street, Seward Park, ...
— Handbook of The New York Public Library • New York Public Library |
Words linked to "Yiddish" : bagel, meshugge, goniff, meshugaas, schlimazel, schmaltz, meshuga, shlep, High German, yenta, shmooze, schnorrer, chutzpa, nosh, schmalz, schlemiel, tchotchke, pisha paysha, shnorrer, shlimazel, mensch, shmo, schnook, chutzpah, putz, hutzpah, schmear, schlep, mishpocha, schtik, tshatshke, mishpachah, shmuck, beigel, shtick, schmuck, schemozzle, shmaltz, kvetch, pareve, nebbish, meshuggener, gonif, shtik, tsatske, nebbech, schlepper, schtick, kibitzer |
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