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The Joys of Yiddish is a book containing a lexicon of common words and phrases of Yinglish—i.e., words originating in the Yiddish language that had become known to speakers of American English due to the influence of American Ashkenazi Jews. It was originally published in 1968 and written by Leo Rosten. [1] [2]
He is also well known for his encyclopedic The Joys of Yiddish (1968), a guide to Yiddish and to Jewish culture including anecdotes and Jewish humor. It was followed by O K*A*P*L*A*N! My K*A*P*L*A*N! (1976), a reworking of the two 1930s collections, and Hooray for Yiddish!
Fawn and Fox Books is a small pop-up bookstore focused on community engagement in rural Oklahoma.
Born in 1868 into a Lithuanian Jewish family in the Jewish town of Slonim, Grodno Governorate, Russia, Lidski attended the traditional Cheder and Yeshiva.His father, Kalman (HaCohen) Lidski, co-founded alongside Yitzchok Yakimowski the most important enterprise of sofer products (Torah scrolls, tefillin and mezuzot, and other religious writings) in Slonim, which was a center of this industry ...
Being Yiddish, the meaning can change by the use of gestures and a change in tone, so that tsatskele can become the favorite child. Leo Rosten , author of The Joys of Yiddish , combines the two main meanings and gives an alternative sense of tchotchke as meaning a young girl, a "pretty young thing".
Leo Rosten writes in The Joys of Yiddish that schmuck is commonly viewed among Jews as an obscene word that should not be said lightly. [7] Lenny Bruce, a Jewish stand-up comedian, wrote that the use of the word during his performances in 1962 led to his arrest on the West Coast, "by a Yiddish undercover agent who had been placed in the club several nights running to determine if [his] use of ...