The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated
by Leo Rosten
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Author: Leo RostenEditor: Lawrence Bush
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-08-26
ISBN: 0609806920
Number of pages: 496
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Book Review: The Joys of Yiddish
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are curious about the evolution American English and have a robust sense of humor, you must have this book. In his introduction, the author clarifies that this book is about the English language, emphasizing contributions to English from Yiddish. Having your copy at hand, so you can look up the Yiddish words as you hear them will reveal another layer of humor in any Mel Brooks movie.
When I acquired my first copy 25 years ago, I found that by just flipping pages and reading what grabbed my eye at the moment, I'd quickly find something profoundly interesting, something uplifting, and something hilarous, all within ten minutes.
Summary of The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated
Enjoy the most comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. With the recent renaissance of interest in Yiddish, and in keeping with a language that embodies the variety and vibrancy of life itself, The New Joys of Yiddish brings Leo Rosten?s masterful work up to date. Revised for the first time by Lawrence Bush, in close consultation with Rosten?s daughters, it retains the spirit of the original?with its wonderful jokes, tidbits of cultural history, Talmudic and biblical references?and is enhanced by hundreds of new entries and thoughtful commentary on how Yiddish has evolved over the years, as well as clever illustrations by R. O. Blechman.Did you know that cockamamy, bluffer, maven, and aha! are all Yiddish words? If you did, you?re a gaon, possessing a lot of seykhl.
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