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Kadia Molodowsky
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“She eats with obedient earnestness down to the very last crumb, as if she were finishing praying.”
Kadia Molodowsky (1894–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Lost Shabes", translated from Yiddish by Irena Klepfisz, The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women's Anthology (1989)
“no one's good luck lasts forever.”
Kadia Molodowsky (1894–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A person would not be able to live in this world if not for the bit of goodness that he has seen with his own eyes-this is what Tulye Shor said to me.”
Kadia Molodowsky (1894–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Fourth Mitzvah," translated from Yiddish by Kathryn Hellerstein, anthologized in Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars edited by Sandra Bark (2003)
“When a person lies in a fever, he keeps nothing hidden. When a person's head is burning, his tongue loosens.”
Kadia Molodowsky (1894–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There were always guests at Bashke's table: merchants conducting business with her husband, emissaries soliciting for a yeshive, visiting rabbis, preachers, paupers and random travellers. Bashke greeted every stranger with respect. In the city her house was renowned; Jews called it Jerusalem.”
Kadia Molodowsky (1894–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was one of those blessedly beautiful afternoons at Brighton Beach, when the sky is so distinctly clear, it was as if it had been washed with a heavenly blue, and the sea looked exactly as if a choirmaster had given the waves their tempo, so that they ebbed and flowed in a harmonious murmur. In short, it was a very beautiful afternoon. (first lines of "The Rafalovitches" 1947 story)”
Kadia Molodowsky (1894–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If Mr. Kasher could have gotten rid of just one word in the English language, he would have banished the word funny. (first lines of "In a Living Room" 1947 story)”
Kadia Molodowsky (1894–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When a person gets rich suddenly, it's not so much apparent in any one thing so much as it is in his eyes and his lapels. His eyes stiffen up and so do his lapels. (first lines of "The Brothers")”
Kadia Molodowsky (1894–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This was the happiest laughter that was ever heard on the hill.”
Kadia Molodowsky (1894–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One rich man is drawn to another.”
Kadia Molodowsky (1894–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After the meal ended, the little flames of the Sabbath candles began to leap and then to go out, and the darkness threw sadness across the table.”
Kadia Molodowsky (1894–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sorrow of all the poor people of the hill fell upon Feyge-Tsipe and spread across the whole house.”
Kadia Molodowsky (1894–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The young man wiped the fingers of his hand with his handkerchief, as if he wanted to wipe away the shame”
Kadia Molodowsky (1894–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...in a city, when the tongues start wagging, God protect us from what can happen.”
Kadia Molodowsky (1894–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yeah, yeah," the gentile said. "A bad dream will bring life to an end.”
Kadia Molodowsky (1894–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wrote the stories included in this book in the last fifteen years. From a world that vanished most dreadfully, and that lives on in our memories, images of piety, virtue, and Jewish morals awaken. There people stood with feet on poor soil, but with their souls in a higher world of good works and good deeds. These very images live in me, and they emerge in a large number of the stories in this book. A Jew was never concerned with the appearance of the walls of his house. He would never call an interior decorator when he needed to whitewash these walls for Passover. He merely hung a picture of the Vilna Gaon on the wall, and that was embellishment enough. He wasn't concerned about what kind of bookcases he had, as long as they contained the Talmud. It didn't matter to him if the windows of his house weren't in the latest style, because he still knew where the eastern wall was. When he gave to charity, he certainly didn't look in the newspapers to see if his name was there, and if the letters were big enough. In our time, people have moved from an inner, spiritual world to a life of externals, to things that flaunt themselves in one's face, that have more glitter than warmth, more talk than thought; more outward show than introspection. And as a Jew advanced from an inner to an outer station, as usual, in that advance, he lost those possessions he had, and had to go back, look for, and find them. These losses and gains are both tragic and comic. A good number of the stories in the book are dedicated to this significant phenomenon in our lives. Perhaps that was why I wanted to call the book A House with Seven Windows: light and shadows enter into each window.”
Kadia Molodowsky (1894–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source