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| 1. |  | The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.) from Harper Perennial Price: $10.85 Customer Review:  I though that I was familiar with the Yiddish vocabulary, but I could not understand any slang. I also could care less. I didn't relate at all of the story and any of the characters. Actually I found everything very annoying. When I drop a book, it is because I really need it. I am very benevolent... |
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| 2. |  | Away: A Novel from Random House Price: $8.00 Customer Review:  I have a habit of buying books much quicker than I get around to reading them. Such has been the case with past Amy Bloom books for me. I have a couple of her short story books, but I don't think I've read either of them all the way through - such is the way with me and short story collections. |
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| 3. |  | Arthur Schwartz's Jewish Home Cooking: Yiddish Recipes Revisited from Ten Speed Press Price: $23.10 Customer Review:  Excellent book. I made the brisket in the book and it was wonderful. I also made the Apple Cake and it was the best. I would consider giving this book to brides. FS |
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| 4. |  | Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (P.S.) from Harper Perennial Price: $11.16 Customer Review: This is a great book; I was expecting just a fairly usual compendium of Yiddishisms, but Wex has shown how language is related to the philosophy behind the language, and how Yiddish is a window on the worldview of the Jews in their period of exile. But not as a dry academic treatise; at times I was,... |
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| 5. |  | How to Raise a Jewish Dog from Little, Brown and Company Price: $10.39 Customer Review: Very dry humor, but right on point. I recommend it to psychologists to help understand jewish guilt. |
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| 6. |  | The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated from Three Rivers Press Price: $13.57 Customer Review: thils is an updated version of leo rosten's original book. it appears a bit overdone in its scholarly definitions. i purchased the book as a gift for someone who was interested in learning something about yiddish. |
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| 7. |  | It Could Always Be Worse: A Yiddish Folk Tale from Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Price: $5.95 Customer Review: My mother has read my this book sence I was 3 years old. I couldn't understand it when I was small, but the beautiful pictures of water colors brought it to life for me. As a got older a started to understand that it was about a poor man who lived in a small cabin and goes to the rabbi for help. The... |
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| 8. |  | Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books from Algonquin Books Price: $11.16 Customer Review: The best book I have read in a while. A must read. Dont waist time reading this review, just get it and read it. Enjoy. I did! |
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| 9. |  | Just Say Nu: Yiddish for Every Occasion (When English Just Won't Do) from St. Martin's Press Price: $16.29 Customer Review: With Just Say Nu, Michael Wex has again given us something rare in popular literature about Yiddish, a laugh out loud synthesis of scholarship and humor. It's an entry point to Yiddish that I wish had been around when I started studying the language as an undergraduate. In fact, Just Say Nu... |
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| 10. |  | Drek!: The Real Yiddish Your Bubbe Never Taught You from Plume Price: $10.40 Customer Review: Just a cursory look at few pages brings back memories of my long departed mother who was an immigrant from Poland. |
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| 11. |  | The Family Mashber (New York Review Books Classics) from NYRB Classics Price: $15.61 | |
| 12. |  | Yiddish with Dick and Jane from Little, Brown and Company Price: $10.17 Customer Review: This book is hysterical! It is a great gift for anyone wanting to learn Yiddish or for anyone who grew up with Yiddish. |
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| 13. |  | Modern English-Yiddish / Yiddish-English Dictionary from Schocken Price: $19.80 Customer Review: This book is just what I was looking for. It is not an easy tome to deal with...and that will be helpful in my endeavour to learn Yiddish. Taking the easy way is often the worst way in learning. This book smacks of quality and is obviously a labour of love. I hope to do it justice. |
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| 14. |  | Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Yiddish from Alpha Price: $18.95 Customer Review: While searching for a book that explains the Yiddish language for the common person, I came across this book and what a book it is! It entertains and explains not only the language but also the people, places and circumstances that shows how Yiddish came to be. There are colorful examples, jokes and... |
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| 15. |  | Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories (Library of Yiddish Classics) from Schocken Price: $10.85 Customer Review: This book was purchased as part of a study prior to a production of 'A Fiddler on the Roof'. It proved invaluable by providing background to the way of life and conditions during the period of the musical play. Since it is the 'base work' for the musical there can be no better reference for... |
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| 16. |  | A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw from Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Price: $8.95 Customer Review: I am Jewish, and I learned a lot from this book. I learned about life in Warsaw, and about the time period around World War I. It shows how that time compares to this, and how much more we have now than back then. Lots of people take electric lights for granted. This book shows what it was like to... |
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| 17. |  | Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of Yiddish New York from Dover Publications Price: $9.95 | |
| 18. |  | Yiddish for Dogs: Chutzpah, Feh!, Kibbitz, and More: Every Word Your Canine Needs to Know from Hyperion Price: $11.96 Customer Review: Being the YENTA that I apparently am, I must spread the word about this MISHUGGEH of a MATZIAH to the whole MISHPOCHA out there! What a METZIAH! Be a MENSCH and buy one, yourself. Not to make a big MEGILLAH, but any MAVEN would KVELL over such a gift. Only a GONIFF wouldn't buy it! Don't get all... |
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| 19. |  | Yiddish with George and Laura from Little, Brown and Company Price: $10.19 Customer Review: This mean-spirited piece of garbage says more about the writers than it's subject, the Bush family. A nasty case of projection it looks to me. Shame on them and shame on the noodnicks that wasted their money on this low crap. |
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| 20. |  | Stories for Children from Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Price: $10.20 Customer Review: As Singer noted in his 1984 Foreword, "in the beginning was the Logos, the power of the word." He had never believed he could write for children, but editor Elizabeth Shub convinced him otherwise in the early 1960s. Twelve volumes of children's books followed, from which these 36 tales are gleaned.... |
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| 21. |  | The Wise Men of Helm and Their Merry Tales from Behrman House Publishing Price: $11.01 Customer Review: The Wise Men of Helm & Their Merry Tales Solomon Simon "Once upon a time an angel, carrying a pack of foolish souls back to heaven for repair, lost his way in a storm and flew over Helm. The town, as you know, lies in a valley, completely surrounded by high mountains. On the topmost... |
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| 22. |  | The Story of Yiddish: How a Mish-Mosh of Languages Saved the Jews from William Morrow Price: $17.13 Customer Review: The mish-mosh is Karlen's book. This guy just does not know enough about Yiddish to write a book about it. There are numerous errors throughout, and the thesis is very thin. Why do people who speak a little Yiddish think they can write a book about it? I eat, but I don't write gourmet cookbooks. And... |
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| 23. |  | Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation from Vintage Price: $11.96 Customer Review: Paul Kriwaczek's survey of the history of the Yiddish Civilization in Eastern Europe was a most informative and eye-opening text for me to read. It has answered many questions about that phase of Jewish history that had puzzled me for a long time. Why did the Jews migrate to the banks of the Rhine... |
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| 24. | [no image] | College Yiddish : An Introduction to the Yiddish Language and to Jewish Life and Culture from YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Price: $35.00 Customer Review: As a self-taught student of the Yiddish language, I've sought out many Yiddish language text books. Uriel Weinreich's "College Yiddish" is by far the definitive book on the subject. All other first-year books pale in comparison. Each lesson is presented and structured in an extremely... |
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| 25. |  | The North of God (The Contemporary Art of the Novella) from Melville House Price: $11.05 Customer Review: I am afraid that it will be too hard for me to write a meaningful review of this book. All I can say is this book is one of the most finely crafted books I have read in quite a while, without being overwritten. It is difficult to summarize this book - part fable, part holocaust story, with very real... |
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| 26. |  | English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary: Romanized (Hippocrene Practical Dictionary) from Hippocrene Books Price: $9.95 Customer Review:  This isn't at all comprehensive, but is fine for speedy access to common words. |
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| 27. |  | Joys of Yiddish from Pocket Customer Review: For example, for an honest translation and etymology of "shaygetz" or "shiksa," see the Meggido Modern Hebrew-English Dictionary: "sheqetz: unclean animal, loathsome creature, abomination...." |
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| 29. |  | If You Can't Say Anything Nice, Say It In Yiddish: Say It In Yiddish from Citadel Price: $10.36 Customer Review: This is arguably the most sloppily produced book I ever read: The number of misspelled Yiddish words is enormous; the most frequenly recurring one is zid in place of zikh, or stub for shtub, cheyli for kheylik (or cheylik), toches-lecher for toches-lecker, etc. The gender of words is often... |
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| 30. |  | Yiddish Radio Project (Original Radio Broadcast) from Highbridge Audio Price: $18.21 Customer Review: Yiddish, the Germanic language of Eastern European Jews that was imported to the US during waves of Jewish immigration, was once a thriving language that fueled vaudeville, newspapers such as the Forverts, Yiddish comedians, radio dramas, and a rich literary tradition. Sadly, few speakers or... |
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