Isaac Bashevis Singer Quote

There are some who call Yiddish a dead language, but so was Hebrew called for two thousand years. It has been revived in our time in a most remarkable, almost miraculous way. Aramaic was certainly a dead language for centuries but then it brought to light the Zohar, a work of mysticism of sublime value.


Nobel lecture (1978)


There are some who call Yiddish a dead language, but so was Hebrew called for two thousand years. It has been revived in our time in a most...

There are some who call Yiddish a dead language, but so was Hebrew called for two thousand years. It has been revived in our time in a most...

There are some who call Yiddish a dead language, but so was Hebrew called for two thousand years. It has been revived in our time in a most...

There are some who call Yiddish a dead language, but so was Hebrew called for two thousand years. It has been revived in our time in a most...