Joys of Yiddish by Leo Rosten
Joys of Yiddish

Leo Rosten

Joys of Yiddish

Leo Rosten

534 pages first pub 1968 (editions)

nonfiction reference funny informative reflective medium-paced

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Do you know when to cry Mazel tov -- and when to avoid it like the plague? Did you know that Oy! is not a word, but a vocabulary with 29 distinct variations, sighed, cried, howled, or moaned, employed to express anything from ecstasy to horror? He...

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