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Every Goy's Guide to Common Jewish Expressions Author: Arthur Naiman |
Every Goy's Guide to Common Jewish Expressions |
Editorial Review:
dredl: A dump little square top that won't spin right to play with on Chanukah.
from that you make a living?: The correct response to someone who tells you they're an artist, a musician, a writer, or a blue-collar worker.
goyim nakhes: The kind of things that gratify the stereotypical goy-a new motor home, bagging the limit duck hunting, a promotion to major, etc.
mother (Jewish): I don't personally believe that Jewish mothers are all that different from other kinds of mothers. For one thing, my mother was nothing like the stereotype. She used to abandon me on our cabin floor for days at a time while she went out deer hunting...
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
Fun little pocket-sized book: 
I really enjoyed reading through this book, which contains 500 common (and not-so-common) Jewish expressions and I highly recommend it to any reader who wants to understand the basics.
and from THIS he made a book?: 
Every Goy's Guide To Common Jewish Expressions is a rather informative guide to Jewish and Yiddish expressions that many younger Jews (and people of other faiths) just don't know. It's cool to be able to leaf through this book and find new expressions or words to talk about with my friends. Some of my Christian friends love the expressions I teach them, too!
As others note, the book is essentially a type of dictionary that lists roughly 500 Yiddish and Hebraic expressions and words and then gives their...more info
Every Goy should buy this book!:
I don't care if it *is* out of print and we're paying $15 for a used "ok" condition one--It's a wonderful book that should be reprinted and kept in print forever!
Arthur defines 500 common Yiddish expressions, then illustrates each deftly with a (*very* funny) Jewish joke. After reading this many years ago, I got comments from my Jewish friends: "How do you know *that* word??"
I was once describing the book to a friend when I realized I had given away all my copies and decided to go on the...more info
Every Goy's Guide to Common Jewish Expressions:
This is a must-have book for anyone who interacts with Jewish people, or really wants to get all the jokes in movies by Mel Brooks and Woody Allen (you'll be amazed at all you've missed)! Also great for Jews who remember their grandparents speaking Yiddish, but picked up very little to pass on to their own children. Naiman's writing and examples are hysterical, and achieve the very difficult task of translating many Yiddish words and sayings that have no English equivalent. The only downer is that this book...more info
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