The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated
by:
Lawrence Bush (author)
Leo Rosten (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780609607855 (0609607855)
Publish date: October 2nd 2001
Publisher: Crown
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
History,
Reference,
Humanities,
Language,
Dictionaries,
Literature,
Jewish,
Religion,
Judaism,
Judaica
The New Joys of Yiddish is a terrific reference and a really fun book to sit down and read. It's filled with folklore, jokes, stories and comics as well as really useful pronounciation guidelines. I don't think I would ever try to use the words here but it helps me understand Jewish literature a lit...
A wonderful book; I've decided that Yiddish is the language of humor and insults, and Rosten's witty prose style makes this book read more like entertainment than reference.
12 years ago
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