Yiddish Books


Just Say Nu: Yiddish for Every Occasion (When English Just Won't Do) (P.S.) Best Price: $10.17 With Just Say Nu, Michael Wex has again given us something rare in popular literature about...	Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (P.S.) Best Price: $0.99 This is a great book; I was expecting just a fairly usual compendium of Yiddishisms, but Wex has...	Drek!: The Real Yiddish Your Bubbe Never Taught You Best Price: $5.59 Just a cursory look at few pages brings back memories of my long departed mother who was an...	The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated Best Price: $11.25 thils is an updated version of leo rosten's original book. it appears a bit overdone in its...	Yiddish with Dick and Jane Best Price: $6.46 Clever spin on translation of colorful Yiddush phrases in that familiar "Dick and...



Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books Best Price: $2.97 The best book I have read in a while. A must read. Dont waist time reading this review, just get...	Modern English-Yiddish / Yiddish-English Dictionary Best Price: $18.36 This book is just what I was looking for. It is not an easy tome to deal with...and that will be...	Yiddish for Dogs: Chutzpah, Feh!, Kibbitz, and More: Every Word Your Canine Needs to Know Best Price: $8.77 Being the YENTA that I apparently am, I must spread the word about this MISHUGGEH of a MATZIAH...	If You Can't Say Anything Nice, Say It In Yiddish: Say It In Yiddish Best Price: $7.35 This is arguably the most sloppily produced book I ever read: The number of misspelled Yiddish...	Yiddish with George and Laura Best Price: $2.49 This mean-spirited piece of garbage says more about the writers than it's subject, the Bush...



The Story of Yiddish: How a Mish-Mosh of Languages Saved the Jews Best Price: $12.50 The mish-mosh is Karlen's book. This guy just does not know enough about Yiddish to write a book...	The Joys of Yiddish For example, for an honest translation and etymology of "shaygetz" or...	Dictionary of German Slang and Colloquial Expressions (Dict of Foreign Lang. Slang) Best Price: $1.00 This little book is worth the $10 for entertainment value alone. This is a funny book. I know...	How to Talk Jewish Best Price: $2.94 Jackie Mason's book "How to Talk Jewish", is the greatest and funniest teaching tool...	Say It in Yiddish Best Price: $13.89 There's a great review of this book at Michael Chabon's website. You can get to it by googling...

English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary: Romanized (Hippocrene Practical Dictionary) Best Price: $5.26 This isn't at all comprehensive, but is fine for speedy access to common words.	From Shmear To Eternity: The Only Book of Yiddish You'll Ever Need: The Only Book of Yiddish You'll Ever Need Best Price: $7.80 actually a dictionary. That's it. It lists Yiddish words and phrases mostly in alphabetical...	Yiddish: A Nation of Words Best Price: $11.33 Unlike pathetic academics like Dovid Katz and Ruth Wisse, engaged in their vicious little turf...	A Dictionary Of Yiddish Slang & Idioms Best Price: $6.81 The setup of the book makes it easy to use. The words and phrases are accurate; my native...	Where There's Smoke, There's Salmon: The Book of Jewish Proverbs Best Price: $1.95

Yiddish-English-Hebrew Dictionary: A Reprint of the 1928 Expanded Second Edition Best Price: $25.84 [I have in front of me my copy from the 1988 photostat produced by YIVO and Schocken in 1928....	Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish Best Price: $22.45 Like the opener about languages - unexpected but very good reading about how languages evolved...	Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Vol. I Best Price: $24.95 Having completed both Book 1 and Book 2, I can tell you that this book is total garbage. This...	Transliterated English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary Best Price: $24.75 As far as I know, this book is welcomed by everyone who has it. I was excited when I found it,...	Yiddish in America: Essays on Yiddish Culture in the Golden Land Best Price: $12.27 Yiddish is a rich, complex, and multilayered language, and that complexity is reflected in...

Dictionary of Jewish Words (JPS Guides) Best Price: $11.12 This book is not a comprehensive introduction to Judaism, and it won't be of much use to...	The Yiddish Dictionary Sourcebook: A Transliterated Guide to the Yiddish Language Best Price: $28.60 Herman Gelvin's 'Transliterated Guide to the Yiddish Language' is a very good dictionary for...	The Meaning of Yiddish (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differenc) Best Price: $22.92 In The Meaning Of Yiddish, Benjamin Harshav (Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew and...	A Yiddish Word Book for English-Speaking People Best Price: $25.00	The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 5: Language (New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture) Best Price: $12.33 The fifth volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores language and dialect in...

Instant Yiddish Best Price: $3.25	Born To Kvetch CD: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods Best Price: $12.43 Like most previous reviewers, I loved this book. I did want to mention that the audio version,...	Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture (S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies) Best Price: $24.45 Adventures in Yiddishland examines the transformation of Yiddish in the six decades since the...	You Can't Do Business (Or Most Anything Else) Without Yiddish Best Price: $12.98 It's a fast read, providing a giggle on almost every page. Although he focuses on the colorful ...	The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish, 1903-1917 (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art) Best Price: $16.47 At the beginning of the twentieth century, Yiddish was widely viewed, even by many of its...

Hooray for Yiddish: A Book About English Best Price: $2.34 This book is very, very funny. It's a real rarity, a reference book that you can read from cover...	A Middle High German Reader Best Price: $48.48	Meshuggenary: Celebrating the World of Yiddish Best Price: $5.99 Aside from the Yiddish - English dictionary the book has many features explaining various...	Ladino-English, English-Ladino: Concise Encyclopedic Dictionary (Hippocrene Concise Dictionary) Best Price: $11.49 This is a fun, enjoyable book to browse through but, as a tool for learners of Ladino, or anyone...	History of the Yiddish Language: Volumes 1 and 2 (Yale Language) Best Price: $240.00 Max Weinreich’s History of the Yiddish Language is a classic of Yiddish scholarship...

Oy, Gevalt! A Little Book of Yiddish (LL(R) Petite Books) "Oy Gevalt: A Little Book of Yiddish", Living Language, 2000. When You Need It ...	Yiddish: A Linguistic Introduction Best Price: $82.40 This book is extremely well written and the first several and last large sections can be read...	Yiddish Wisdom: Yiddishe Chochma Best Price: $1.95 This is a great book not just for people who want to hear some of Yiddish culture's warm but...	Yiddish: Language 30 Best Price: $12.89 This set is a decent value. For your money, you get a fairly broad range of phrases and...	The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture (Pitt Russian East European) Best Price: $23.99 Fishman's writing is clear, unfussy, and remarkably good. Moreover, he shows incredible command...

The Joys of Yinglish This book is fun and educational. On one hand, you can use it like an encyclopedia, to find...	New Readings of Yiddish Montreal / Traduire le Montreal Yiddish (Canadian Studies) Best Price: $26.29 Featuring a bilingual (French & English) text, "New Readings Of Yiddish Montreal"...	Early Yiddish Texts 1100-1750: With Introduction and Commentary Best Price: $307.47 This volume is the first comprehensive anthology of early Yiddish literature (from its...	Berlitz Travel Pack Turkish (Berlitz Travel Packs) Best Price: $14.83 None of the other reviews as of this day, Apr 17, 2008, are about this set. They are about Czech...	Talk Dirty Yiddish: Beyond Drek: The curses, slang, and street lingo you need to know when you speak Yiddish (Talk Dirty) Best Price: $7.95 This is the Yiddish they didn?t teach at Temple. This book gives readers the lowdown on how to...

Origins of the Yiddish Language	The Grammar Of The Yiddish Language This is an excellent reference text for anyone interested in the Yiddish language. Some strong...	Dictionary of 1000 Jewish Proverbs (Hippocrene Bilingual Proverbs) Best Price: $7.32 " A young tree bends, an old tree breaks" " It is not good for man to be...	THE DICTIONARY OF POPULAR YIDDISH WORDS, PHRASES, AND PROVERBS Best Price: $11.85	A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names : Their Origins, Structure, Pronunciations, and Migrations Best Price: $62.05 I was looking for a regular dictionary of names a la Kolatch's dictionaries of Hebrew names....

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