A dazzlement of 4,500 proverbs, folk sayings, witticisms, insights, maxims and moralisms - collected over 58 years, freshly translated or rewritten, and garnished with irony, paradox and truth.

The tracer's goals are to identify the source of a quotation, to find or to produce detailed citation based on a reliable edition of the work, to find an authoritative text of the passage being traced, and to do all this in the shortest time possible and with the least possible amount of effort.

From menopause to moving in, from losing weight to starting a business, this organized book is filled with 1,500 quotations that capture the mundane and the magnificent and covers 150 occasions.

"The expressions of Jews and the statements of non-Jews on matters relating to Judaism. While the entries cover the entire span of Jewish history, special attention has been paid to statements made within the latter half of the twentieth century."--Jacket.