Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.

You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.

One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there’s no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.

Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are ‘holes’ and ‘bank’ and ‘caps.’ But every game finishes up...

It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the ‘L’ag Beomer.’ They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them,...

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

Gossip is nature’s telephone.

A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one’s self, without a companion, and without a single argument.

There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given a moment’s thought to anything, and comprehend everything. ‘Blessed hands’ is the name...

No one knows whom the shoe pinches – no one.

When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you… Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best.

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

A cantor, when he starts singing, it’s like rain – once it starts, it’s hard to stop.

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.

Remember, you must not sleep at the Seder. If you do, Elijah the Prophet will come with a bag on his shoulders. On the two first nights of Passover, Elijah the Prophet goes about looking...

When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform?

To go to the synagogue with one’s father on the Passover eve – is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is it worth to be dressed in new clothes from head...