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Plenty of Jewish voices
populate new reference
work.

Suzanne Chessler

Special to the Jewish News

TAT1ONS

EDITED BY FRED R. SHAPIRO

FOREWORD BY JOSEPH EPSTEIN

Answers to the
quiz on page 45.

A-8

J-9

W

hen the late comedian Groucho Marx
was denied membership in a beach
club because he was Jewish, the
cigar-smoking comic retorted, "My son's only half
Jewish. Would it be all right if he went in the water
up to his knees?"
That comment joins 12,000 others in a new
collection edited by Fred Shapiro. The Yale Book
of Quotations (Yale University Press; $50)
reaches through his-
tory and includes
The Yale Book of
Quotations emphasizes the the serious with
the funny — all
American and the modern.

S-29

Bella Abzug (1920-1998), U.S. politi-
cian, quoted in U.S. News and World
Report (1977)

Joseph Heller, (1923-1999), U.S. nov-
elist, from Catch-22

Golda Meir (1898-1978), quoted in
Newsday (1988)

B-16

K-6

Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989), U.S.
political activist

T-19

Woody Allen (Allen Stewart
Konigsberg, 1935- ), U.S. comedian
and filmmaker, in the New Yorker
(1969)

C-7

Lauren Bacall (Betty Jane Persky,
1924- ), U.S. actress

D-36

Harry Cohn (1891-1958), U.S. motion
picture executive

George Jessel (1898-1981), U.S.
entertainer, quoted in the Boston
Globe (1929)

M-17

Henry Kissinger (1923- ), German-
born U.S. statesman, quoted in the
New York Times Magazine (1960)

N-34

E-15

Moshe Dayan (1915-1981), Israeli mili-
tary leader and politician

F-4

Nora Ephron (1941- ), U.S. writer and
director, quoted in People (1986)

G-31

Anne Frank (1929-1945), German
diarist

H-37

Thomas L. Friedman (1953- ), U.S.
journalist and author

1-35

William Goldman (1931- ), U.S. nov-
elist and screenwriter, from The
Princess Bride

48

L-30

December 21 . 2006

Ann Landers (Esther Pauline "Eppie"
Lederer, 1918-2002), U.S. newspaper
columnist

0-18

Fran Lebowitz (1946- ), U.S. humor-
ist

P-10

Richard Lewis (1947- ), U.S. come-
dian

Q-5

Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon,
1135-1204), Spanish Jewish philoso-
pher and scholar

R-25

Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), U.S.
novelist, from The Natural

Bette Midler (1945- ), U.S. singer and
actress, quoted in the Jerusalem
Post (1989)

U-ii
Louis Nizer (1902-1994), Jewish
English-born U.S. lawyer, from My
Life in Court

V-33

Phil Ochs (1940-1976), U.S. folksing-
er, from his song "I Ain't Marchin'
Anymore" (1965)

W-38

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S.
critic and humorist, quoted in Paris
Review (1956)

X-24

Joan Rivers (1933-), quoted in L.A.
Times (1974)

Y-28

Ethel Rosenberg (1915-1953), alleged
spy

Z-20

arranged by author.
"I cast my net more broadly than the previous
standard quotation dictionaries and captured a lot
of modern culture that hadn't been in quotation
dictionaries before," says Shapiro, 52, also editor
of The Oxford Dictionary of American Legal
Quotations and Trial and Error, a compilation
of stories that have to do with the law.
"I covered fields like technology, computers,
politics, sports and children's literature, and I
discovered the origins of lots of quotations that
no one had found previously. I also found famous
quotations that were omitted from other quotation
dictionaries."
Shapiro, associate librarian and lecturer in legal
research at Yale Law School, came to do the book
after meeting about other matters with an edi-
tor at Yale University Press. Asked about ideas for
new reference texts, Shapiro suggested the book of
quotations, a project that took six years of week-
ends and vacations as well as early and late hours.
"I used a lot of methods of traditional research
and computerized research to compile the book,"
explains Shapiro, who had the help of research
assistants and invites readers to suggest entries
for future editions through his Web site,
www.quotationdictionary.com .
"I looked at a lot of previous collections and
articles and did a lot of networking with Internet
discussion groups!"

BB-12

U.S. author, from A Return to Love
(1992), frequently misattributed to
Nelson Mandela

CC-26

Herman Wouk (1915- ), U.S. novelist,
from The Caine Mutiny (1951)

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991),
Polish-born U.S. writer, quoted in the
New York Times (1982)

Susan Sontag (1933-2004), U.S.
writer

DD-22

LL-14

Ed Wynn (1886-1966), U.S. comedian

Benjamin Spock (1903-1998),
U.S. physician and author, in The
Common Sense Book of Baby and
Child Care (1946)

EE-2

Steven Spielberg (1946- ), U.S. film
director, quoted in Time magazine
(1979)

FF-13

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S.
writer

GG-32

Tom Stoppard (1937-), Czech-born
English playwright, in Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967)

HH-27

Barbra Streisand (1942- ), U.S.
actress and singer

Rita Rudner (1956- ), U.S. comedian

11-23

AA-3

Steven Weinberg (1933-), Nobel
Prize-winning U.S. physicist

William Safire (1929-), U.S. journalist
and author

KK-1

JJ-21

Marianne Williamson, (1952- ),

1— KK
2 — EE
3 — AA
4 — F
5 — Q
6 — K
7 — C
8 — A
9 — J
10 — P
11 — U
12 — BB
13 — FF
14 — LL
15 — E
16 — B
17 — M
18-0
19 — T
20 — Z

21 — JJ
22 — DD
23 — II
24 — X
25 — R
26 — CC
27 — HH
28 — Y
29 — S
30 — L
31 — G
32 — GG
33 — V
34 — N
35 — I
36 — D
37 — H
38 — W