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Enjoy the most comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. With the recent renaissance of interest in Yiddish, and in keeping with a language that embodies the variety and vibrancy of life itself, The New Joys of Yiddish brings... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Rosten: Add a description of this character.
- Adam
- Chasidim
- Akiba
- Harper
- Goebbels
- Maurice Samuel
- Yinglish
- Horowitz
- David
- Jason Aronson
- Esther
- Sabbatai Zvi
- Frank
- Hadassah
- Mama
- Bernstein
- Zohar
- Elijah
- Mr. Zucker
- Hillel
- Abraham
- Ruth
- Judah Ha-nasi
- Mandelbaum
- Litvak
- Eric Partridge
- Cohen
- Mr. Levine
- H. L. Mencken
- Jacobs
- Crowell
- Eliezer
- Shirley
- Kipnis
- Reuveni
- Genevieve
Setting & Locations edit
- Israel
- Europe
- North America
- Judaism
- United States
- New York City
- Jerusalem
- Poland
- Spain
- Palestine
- Germany
- Temple
- Rome
- Lower East Side
- Babylonia
- England
- Italy
- Egypt
- Turkey
- Heaven
- Persia
- Portugal
- France
- Galicia
- Purim
- Hollywood
- Brooklyn
- Middle Ages
- Lithuania
- Chicago
- Sanhedrin
- Haskala
- Zion
- Russia
- Judea
- Philadelphia
- London
- Miami
- Amsterdam
- Vilna
- Holy Land
- Mississippi
Authors & Contributors edit
- Leo Calvin Rosten (Author)
- Lawrence Bush (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 422.43910207
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