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Born to kvetch : Yiddish language and culture in all its moods / by Wex, Michael,1954-(CARDINAL)684213;
Includes bibliographical references.Kvetch que c'est? : the origins of Yiddish -- Six feet under, baking bagels : Yiddish in action -- Something else to kvetch about : Yiddish dialects -- Pigs, poultry, and Pampers : the religions roots of Yiddish -- Discouraging words : Yiddish and the forces of darkness -- You should grow like an onion : the Yiddish curse -- If it wasn't for bad luck : mazl, misery, and money -- "Bupkes means a lot of nothing" : Yiddish and nature -- Making a tsimmes : food, kosher and treyf -- A slap in the tukhes and hello : Yiddish life from birth -- Bar mitzvah -- More difficult than splitting the Red Sea : courtship and marriage -- Too good for the goyim : sex in Yiddish -- It should happen to you : death in Yiddish -- Glossary.
Subjects: Jews; Yiddish language; Yiddish language; Yiddish wit and humor.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Yiddish. by Educational Services (Washington, D.C.)(CARDINAL)282152;
Introduced by Charles Berlitz.Introduces the basic phrases needed to communicate in Yiddish.
Subjects: Yiddish language; Yiddish language;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Born to Kvetch : Yiddish language and culture in all of its moods. by Wex, Michael,1954-;
Subjects: Yiddish language; Yiddish language; Yiddish wit and humor.; Jews;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The JPS dictionary of Jewish words / by Eisenberg, Joyce.(CARDINAL)759055; Scolnic, Ellen.(CARDINAL)664849; Jewish Publication Society.(CARDINAL)182854;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-187) and index.
Subjects: Dictionaries.; Hebrew language; Judaism; Yiddish language;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The joys of Yinglish : an exuberant dictionary of Yiddish words, phrases, and locutions ... / by Rosten, Leo,1908-1997.(CARDINAL)152522;
Subjects: Dictionaries.; English language; Yiddish language;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Outwitting history [large print] : the amazing adventures of a man who rescued a million Yiddish books / by Lansky, Aaron,1955-(CARDINAL)467636;
Includes bibliographical references.In 1980 an entire body of Jewish literature--the physical remnant of Yiddish culture--was on the verge of extinction. Precious volumes that had survived Hitler and Stalin were being passed down from older generations of Jewish immigrants to their non-Yiddish-speaking children only to be discarded or destroyed. So Aaron Lansky, just twenty-three, issued a worldwide appeal for unwanted Yiddish works.
Subjects: Large print books.; Lansky, Aaron, 1955-; National Yiddish Book Center (U.S.); Book collecting.; Yiddish imprints.; Language revival.; Yiddish language; Yiddish language.;
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Outwitting history : the amazing adventures of a man who rescued a million Yiddish books / by Lansky, Aaron,1955-(CARDINAL)467636;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-316).
Subjects: Lansky, Aaron, 1955-; National Yiddish Book Center (U.S.); Book collecting.; Yiddish imprints.; Language revival.; Yiddish language; Yiddish language.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The Jewish word book / by Jacobs, Sidney J.(CARDINAL)842468;
Subjects: Dictionaries.; English language; English language; Hebrew language; Yiddish language;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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How Yiddish changed America and how America changed Yiddish / by Stavans, Ilan,editor.(CARDINAL)365637; Stavans, Ilan,editor.(CARDINAL)365637; Lambert, Joshua N.,editor.(CARDINAL)821782;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Politics and possibility -- the mother tongue remixed -- eat, enjoy, and forget -- American commemoration -- the childrenIs it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language without a country, influenced Hollywood? These and other questions are explored in this stunning and rich anthology of the interplay of Yiddish and American culture, edited by award-winning authors and scholars Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert. -- the other Americas.
Subjects: Yiddish language; Yiddish language; English language;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Anglish-yinglish : Yiddish in American life and literature / by Bluestein, Gene,1928-2002.(CARDINAL)276234;
Bibliography: pages 133-135.1120L
Subjects: Americanisms.; English language; Jews; Yiddish language; Yiddish language;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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