Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land by Spain Rodriguez, Nick Thorkelson, Sabrina Jones, Sam Marlow, Paul M. Buhle, Peter Kuper, Peter Gullerud, Gary Dumm, Danny Fingeroth, Harvey Pekar, Neal Gabler, Marvin Friedman, Sharon Rudahl, Nathaniel Buchwald, Hershl Hartman, Dan Archer, David Lasky, Allen Lewis Rickman, Sara I. Rosenbaum, Ellis Rosen, Joe Zabel, Dave Wagner, Joel Schechter, Barry Deutsch, Neil Kleid

Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land

Spain Rodriguez, Nick Thorkelson, Sabrina Jones, Sam Marlow, Paul M. Buhle, Peter Kuper, Peter Gullerud, Gary Dumm, Danny Fingeroth, Harvey Pekar, Neal Gabler, Marvin Friedman, Sharon Rudahl, Nathaniel Buchwald, Hershl Hartman, Dan Archer, David Lasky, Allen Lewis Rickman, Sara I. Rosenbaum, Ellis Rosen, Joe Zabel, Dave Wagner, Joel Schechter, Barry Deutsch, Neil Kleid

240 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction comics history challenging reflective slow-paced

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Yiddish is everywhere. We hear words like nosh, schlep, and schmutz all the time, but how did these words come to pepper American English? In Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land, Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle trace the influence of Yiddi...

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