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- Title
- Joys of Yiddish
- Author
- Rosten, Leo
- Publisher
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 067172813X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671728137
Describes the history and folklore behind Yiddish and Hebrew words and offers liberal translations
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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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