How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish by Josh Lambert, Ilan Stavans
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish

Josh Lambert, Ilan Stavans

How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish

Josh Lambert, Ilan Stavans

512 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction sociology challenging informative medium-paced
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Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language without a country, influe...

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