The Joys of Yiddish
Leo Calvin Rosten
McGraw-Hill (1968)
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English Language, English Language/ Foreign Words And Phrases/ Yiddish, Jewish Wit And Humor, Yiddish Language/ Glossaries, Vocabularies, Etc
Hardcover 9780070539754
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Leo Rosten left a great legacy of Jewish culture with his classic informal lexicon of Yiddish. Rosten defines (by synonym, anecdote, and joke) the words that have made it into common parlance (like chutzpah, schlep, and schmooze) as well as a choice collection of less integrated but equally rich vocabulary such as schmatte (a rag, i.e. what a schmatte you're wearing), chozzerai (literally "pig food," now denoting crap or junk food), and hundreds more. First published in 1968, Rosten's aptly named compendium still sings with humorous erudition.
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Dewey 492.4932
No. of Pages 533
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