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Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.

— Isaac Leib Peretz

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Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

It is a key to open a heaven after death and not a key with which to force open the portals of this life.

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

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