Drek!: The Real Yiddish Your Bubbe Never Taught You
by Yetta Emmes
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Author: Yetta EmmesIllustrator: Kim Wilson Brandt
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-12-01
ISBN: 0452278996
Number of pages: 112
Publisher: Plume
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Book Review: Vat every Yiddisa Jew knows and everyone else should know!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Yiddish to those who don't know, is a language derived from German (although if you ask three Jews for their opinion as to the origin of Yiddish, you'll get four opinions back at you darling!!). To the Jew who grows up in a Yiddisah "Stub" or house, learns many good expressions, and so many not so good ones! Drek takes a wonderful, factual approach to this dying language via the humorous road!This book dares to expose to the secrets, words, and expressions that only a Yiddisah-cupe would know!
I recommend this book to anyone; Jew or non-who wants to have a great laugh, return to their childhood roots or just to pick up some very bad words indeed!
My Wife, Helene and I laughed out loud and are going to buy a crate full of "Drek" for our friends and family!
My only complaint is now I may not be able to talk behind people's backs so easily - they have the Drek! Who knows for sure!
Gay-cach-and-yam to all, and to all a goodnight!!
Summary of Drek!: The Real Yiddish Your Bubbe Never Taught You
One doesn't have to be Jewish to recognize the words that have made their way into every fold of popular language: Chutzpah, Mensch, Tokhes, Mishmash, Nudge, Shtick, Schmaltzy, Schlep, Icky, and so on. Then there are phrases whose meaning and syntax are borrowed from Yiddish: "bite your tongue", "drop dead", "enough already", and "excuse the expression". This hilarious, concise guide includes chapters on the Basic Descriptions of People (the good, the bad, the ugly, and the goofy), the Fine Art of Cursing, Juicy Words and Phrases, Exclamations and Exasperations, and the Fine Art of Blessing.Humor Books
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