[2] American humorist Leo Rosten describes a mentsh as "someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character.
[5] Mentshlekhkeyt (Yiddish: מענטשלעכקייט; German: Menschlichkeit) refers to the properties which make a person a mensch.
The concept goes back to Cicero's humanitas, which was literally translated as Menschlichkeit in German, from which the Yiddish word mentsh derives.
[citation needed] The word Mensch and the underlying concept have had an impact on popular culture.
A life-size version of the doll was adopted as the mascot of Team Israel at the World Baseball Classic in 2016.