More quotes by Sholem Aleichem
Once a joke, twice a joke, but not a joke forever.
No doubt everyone has worries—a Jew does not need to go looking for trouble.
My First Jewish Novel, Stempenyu (1888)
The heart itself, and particularly the Jewish heart, is a violin: you pluck the strings, teasing out various, generally sad and gloomy songs
My First Jewish Novel, Stempenyu (1888)
The fiddle weeps, sinking to the lower strings
My First Jewish Novel, Stempenyu (1888)
In America there’s a custom: you moofe. That is, you pack up from one apartment to the next. From one street to the next. From one biznes to the next. Everybody has to moofe. If you don’t moofe of your own free will, then they make it so you have to.
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