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Learning Alsatian Through English
Paul Adolf
Hardcover - $170.95
A new comparative reference guide for English speaking learners of Alsatian German. This comparative multilingual dictionary is based on the main similarities between the two languages and will show how English speakers can take advantage of the reso ...
Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Yiddish
Benjamin Blech
Paperback - $30.95
You're not idiot, of course. You can serve up a mean s'il vous plait in a French bistro, live la vida loca for a night of margaritas, and manage a sayonara! after sushi, sake, and karaoke. But when it comes to throwing around a little Yiddish, you fe ...
Anglish/Yinglish : Yiddish in American Life and Literature
Gene Bluestein
Paperback - $27.95
Writers have celebrated the fruitful dialogue between English and Yiddish for decades. In this engrossing lexicon, Gene Bluestein reveals the full extent of that dialogue, introducing "Anglish, or Anglicized Yiddish, in which a Yiddish word is integr ...
Drek! : The Real Yiddish Your Bubbe Never Taught You
Yetta Emmes
Paperback - $21.95
One doesn't have to be Jewish to recognize the words which 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 ...
The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture
David E. Fishman
Hardcover - $65.95
Acting as an important historical archive for the Jews of eastern Europe, The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture examines the progress of Yiddish culture from its origins in Tsarist and inter-war Poland to its apex with the founding of the Yiddish Scient ...
Dictionary of 1000 Jewish Proverbs
David Gross
Paperback - $21.95
This multilingual collection of 1000 Jewish proverbs is extracted from the rich oral traditions of Hebrew, Yiddish, and Aramaic, and has been edited with both the scholar and the general reader in mind. covering a wide range of topics, the proverbs r ...
Words on Fire : The Unfinished Story of Yiddish
Dovid Katz
Paperback - $32.95
From one of the world's foremost scholars of Yiddish comes a sweeping historyof the language, its culture, and its literature--with a provocative argumentabout its future as a living language.
