The Joys of Yiddish by Leo Rosten

The Joys of Yiddish

Leo Rosten

533 pages first pub 1968 (editions) user-added

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 Do you know when to cry Mazel tov -- and when to avoid it like the plague? Did you know that Oy! is not a word, but a vocabulary with 29 distinct variations, sighed, cried, howled, or moaned, employed to express anything from ecstasy to horror? H...

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