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Dirty Yiddish

Everyday Slang from "What's Up?" to "F*%# Off!"

by Adrienne Gusoff ...

Series series Dirty Everyday Slang
Next time you're chattin' with your khaverim (friends) and mishpukheh (family), bust out some Yiddish expressions that'll liven up the conversation.Nothing is censored in Dirty Yiddish. It includes phrases for any situation, so readers have enough chutzpah (balls) to tell the local deli that they've waited long enough for their knish, and explicit swear words crude enough to shock Bubby and ... Read more

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Next time you're chattin' with your khaverim (friends) and mishpukheh (family), bust out some Yiddish expressions that'll liven up the conversation.Nothing is censored in Dirty Yiddish. It includes phrases for any situation, so readers have enough chutzpah (balls) to tell the local deli that they've waited long enough for their knish, and explicit swear words crude enough to shock Bubby and
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The Everything Learning French Book, 3rd Edition

Speak, Write, and Understand Basic French in No Time

by Bruce Sallee, David Hebert ...

Series series Everything® Series
Discover just how easy it is to learn French with this updated edition of The Everything Learning French Book with new online audio so you can quickly access the pronunciation guide and exercises while you’re reading.The Everything Learning French Book, 3rd Edition makes learning French egaging and effortless! Now, with online audio, this comprehensive guide offers step-by-step instruction in ... Read more

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Discover just how easy it is to learn French with this updated edition of The Everything Learning French Book with new online audio so you can quickly access the pronunciation guide and exercises while you’re reading.The Everything Learning French Book, 3rd Edition makes learning French egaging and effortless! Now, with online audio, this comprehensive guide offers step-by-step instruction in
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The New Joys of Yiddish

Completely Updated

by Leo Rosten, Lawrence Bush ...

More than a quarter of a century ago, Leo Rosten published the first comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. Said “to give body and soul to the Yiddish language,” The Joys of Yiddish went on to become an indispensable tool for writers, journalists, politicians, and students, as well as a perennial bestseller for three decades ... Read more

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More than a quarter of a century ago, Leo Rosten published the first comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. Said “to give body and soul to the Yiddish language,” The Joys of Yiddish went on to become an indispensable tool for writers, journalists, politicians, and students, as well as a perennial bestseller for three decades
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Yiddish Wisdom

Humor and Heart from the Old Country

by Chronicle Books ...

"The tongue is the pen of the heart/ Di tsung iz der feder fun di hartz" and more sayings that sum up Jewish character and culture from generations past.Decade after decade, Yiddish proverbs continue to capture the humor, warmth, and traditions of Jewish life. Now, the beloved Yiddish Wisdom has been expanded with even more proverbs and fresh illustrations to be cherished by a new generation. With ... Read more

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"The tongue is the pen of the heart/ Di tsung iz der feder fun di hartz" and more sayings that sum up Jewish character and culture from generations past.Decade after decade, Yiddish proverbs continue to capture the humor, warmth, and traditions of Jewish life. Now, the beloved Yiddish Wisdom has been expanded with even more proverbs and fresh illustrations to be cherished by a new generation. With
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Conversational Yiddish Quick and Easy: The Most Innovative Technique to Learn the Yiddish Language

by Yatir Nitzany ...

Have you always wanted to learn how to speak Yiddish but simply didn't have the time??Well if so, then, look no further.You can hold in your hands "Conversational Yiddish Quick and Easy" which contains one of the most advanced and revolutionary methods that was ever designed for quickly becoming conversational in a language.In creating this time-saving program, master linguist Yatir Nitzany spent ... Read more

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Have you always wanted to learn how to speak Yiddish but simply didn't have the time??Well if so, then, look no further.You can hold in your hands "Conversational Yiddish Quick and Easy" which contains one of the most advanced and revolutionary methods that was ever designed for quickly becoming conversational in a language.In creating this time-saving program, master linguist Yatir Nitzany spent
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Yiddishkeit

Jewish Vernacular & the New Land

by Harvey Pekar, Paul Buhle ...

A "fascinating and enlightening" collection of comics and writings that explore the Yiddish language and the Jewish experience ( The Miami Herald).We hear words like nosh, schlep, and schmutz, but how did they come to pepper American English? In Yiddishkeit, Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle trace the far-reaching influences of Yiddish from medieval Europe to the tenements of New York's Lower East Side. ... Read more

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A "fascinating and enlightening" collection of comics and writings that explore the Yiddish language and the Jewish experience ( The Miami Herald).We hear words like nosh, schlep, and schmutz, but how did they come to pepper American English? In Yiddishkeit, Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle trace the far-reaching influences of Yiddish from medieval Europe to the tenements of New York's Lower East Side.
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Red Shoes for Rachel

Three Novellas

by Boris Sandler ...

Translated by Barnett Zumoff ...

Series series Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
Red Shoes for Rachel, Sandler’s award-winning collection of three novellas, features tightly wound tales that seamlessly incorporate diverse genres, including magic realism, satire, and autobiography, and profound psychological profiles to create touching portrayals of the human experience. Zumoff’s translation of Sandler’s original Yiddish collection makes the J. I. Segal Award–winning volume ... Read more

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Red Shoes for Rachel, Sandler’s award-winning collection of three novellas, features tightly wound tales that seamlessly incorporate diverse genres, including magic realism, satire, and autobiography, and profound psychological profiles to create touching portrayals of the human experience. Zumoff’s translation of Sandler’s original Yiddish collection makes the J. I. Segal Award–winning volume
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Children and Yiddish Literature From Early Modernity to Post-Modernity

by Gennady Estraikh, Kerstin Hoge, Krutikov Mikhail ...

Series series Legenda
Children have occupied a prominent place in Yiddish literature since early modern times, but children’s literature as a genre has its beginnings in the early 20th century. Its emergence reflected the desire of Jewish intellectuals to introduce modern forms of education, and promote ideological agendas, both in Eastern Europe and in immigrant communities elsewhere. Before the Second World War, a ... Read more

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Children have occupied a prominent place in Yiddish literature since early modern times, but children’s literature as a genre has its beginnings in the early 20th century. Its emergence reflected the desire of Jewish intellectuals to introduce modern forms of education, and promote ideological agendas, both in Eastern Europe and in immigrant communities elsewhere. Before the Second World War, a
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Pioneers

The First Breach

by S. An-sky ...

Translated by Rose Waldman ...

Series series Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
When young Zalmen Itzkowitz steps off the train on a dark, dreary day at the close of the nineteenth century, the residents of Miloslavka have no idea what’s in store for them. Zalmen is a freethinker who has come to the rural town to earn his living as a tutor. Yet, rather than teach Hebrew, he plans to teach his students the Russian language and other secular subjects. Residents of the town ... Read more

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When young Zalmen Itzkowitz steps off the train on a dark, dreary day at the close of the nineteenth century, the residents of Miloslavka have no idea what’s in store for them. Zalmen is a freethinker who has come to the rural town to earn his living as a tutor. Yet, rather than teach Hebrew, he plans to teach his students the Russian language and other secular subjects. Residents of the town
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The Travels of Benjamin Zuskin

by Ala Zuskin Perelman ...

Series series Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
Described by theater critics as one of the twentieth century’s greatest talents, Benjamin Zuskin (1899–1952) was a star of the Moscow State Jewish Theater. In writing The Travels of Benjamin Zuskin, his daughter, Ala Zuskin Perelman, has rescued from oblivion his story and that of the theater in which he served as performer and, for a period, artistic director. Against the backdrop of the Soviet ... Read more

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Described by theater critics as one of the twentieth century’s greatest talents, Benjamin Zuskin (1899–1952) was a star of the Moscow State Jewish Theater. In writing The Travels of Benjamin Zuskin, his daughter, Ala Zuskin Perelman, has rescued from oblivion his story and that of the theater in which he served as performer and, for a period, artistic director. Against the backdrop of the Soviet
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With Rake in Hand

Memoirs of a Yiddish Poet

by Joseph Rolnik ...

Translated by Gerald Marcus ...

Series series Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
Joseph Rolnik is widely considered one of the most prominent of the New York Yiddish poets associated with Di Yunge, an avant-garde literary group that formed in the early twentieth century. In his moving and evocative memoir, Rolnik recalls his childhood growing up in a small town in Belarus and his exhilarating yet arduous experiences as an impoverished Yiddish poet living in New York. Working ... Read more

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Joseph Rolnik is widely considered one of the most prominent of the New York Yiddish poets associated with Di Yunge, an avant-garde literary group that formed in the early twentieth century. In his moving and evocative memoir, Rolnik recalls his childhood growing up in a small town in Belarus and his exhilarating yet arduous experiences as an impoverished Yiddish poet living in New York. Working
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Lingering Bilingualism

Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact

by Naomi Brenner ...

Series series Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
In a famous comment made by the poet Chayim Nachman Bialik, Hebrew—the language of the Jewish religious and intellectual tradition—and Yiddish—the East European Jewish vernacular—were "a match made in heaven that cannot be separated." That marriage, so the story goes, collapsed in the years immediately preceding and following World War I. But did the "exes" really go their separate ways?Lingering ... Read more

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In a famous comment made by the poet Chayim Nachman Bialik, Hebrew—the language of the Jewish religious and intellectual tradition—and Yiddish—the East European Jewish vernacular—were "a match made in heaven that cannot be separated." That marriage, so the story goes, collapsed in the years immediately preceding and following World War I. But did the "exes" really go their separate ways?Lingering
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