There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of lif…

Isaac Bashevis Singer
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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. ✨ Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). Aspects of I.B. Singer
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