This week's A.Word.A.Day featured words from Yiddish. Anu Garg is brilliant and so is his site. I adore Yiddish words. I grew up on Long Island and may be a muttly half-Puerto Rican/half-Irish mix but I consider myself an honorary Jew all the same. Yiddish is full of onomatopoeia: klutz, schnook, schlep. The words have an inherent wryness.
And then there are quotes each day which make me happy:
I come from a people who gave the Ten Commandments to the world. Time has come to strengthen them by three additional ones, which we ought to adopt and commit ourselves to: thou shall not be a perpetrator; thou shall not be a victim; and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander.–Yehuda Bauer, professor (b. 1926)
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