Favorite Yiddish Phrases

Max Levine, son of Yiddish speaking Holocaust survivors from Poland, shares the two phrases that his parents used that still mean the most to him.
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[@moonhunter9993]

hab dich lieb... my mom still says it

[@intarc0giotto]

yeah well that is the same as in regular german. and in germany you say that to people you love like family and i love you, ich liebe dich, is for lovers only. but you don't say any of these to random people like americans do, here. if you want it or not but jews lived in the german society and were socialized there.