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Leo Rosten (1907–1997)

Autor de The Joys of Yiddish

46+ Obras 3,582 Miembros 50 Reseñas 3 Preferidas

Sobre El Autor

He was the author of The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*P*L*A*N, Captain Newman, M.D., and countless other books, articles, and screenplays. (Bowker Author Biography)

Series

Obras de Leo Rosten

The Joys of Yiddish (1970) 964 copias
Hooray for Yiddish (1982) 282 copias
The Return of Hyman Kaplan (1959) 134 copias
The Joys of Yinglish (1989) 130 copias
Captain Newman, M.D. (1961) 79 copias
O Kaplan! My Kaplan! (1976) 63 copias
Look Book (1962) 36 copias

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Modern Jewish stories (1963) — Contribuidor — 36 copias
The Dark Corner (1946) 26 copias
Chucklebait (1945) — Contribuidor — 14 copias
The Best American Short Stories 1959 (1959) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
American Men at Arms (1964) — Contribuidor — 10 copias
World's Great Humorous Stories (1944) — Contribuidor — 9 copias
Our lives : American labor stories — Contribuidor — 6 copias
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Contribuidor; Contribuidor — 5 copias
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 8, April 1974 (1974) — Contribuidor — 4 copias
15 Stories: An Anthology for Secondary Schools (1960) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
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Nombre canónico
Rosten, Leo
Nombre legal
Rosten, Leo Calvin
Otros nombres
Ross, Leonard Q.
Fecha de nacimiento
1907-04-11
Fecha de fallecimiento
1997-02-19
Género
male
Nacionalidad
Russian Empire (birth)
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
Lodz, Poland
Lugar de fallecimiento
New York, New York, USA
Lugares de residencia
Lodz, Russian Empire (now Poland)
New York, New York, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Educación
University of Chicago
London School of Economics
Ocupaciones
teacher
screenwriter
lexicographer
novelist
humorist
journalist
Relaciones
Rosten, Carrie (granddaughter)
Mead, Margaret (sister-in-law)
Steig, William (brother-in-law)
Bateson, Mary Catherine (niece)
Organizaciones
Look
Biografía breve
Leo Rosten was born in Łódź, Poland, and emigrated to the USA at age three, settling in Chicago. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1930 and earned a Ph.D. in 1937, followed by postgraduate study at the London School of Economics. During the Great Depression, he worked as a screenwriter and held a series of government information jobs during World War II. In 1949, he joined the staff of Look magazine, where he worked until 1971. As Leonard Q. Ross, he began his publishing career with the novel The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N (1937), based on his experiences teaching English to new immigrants. He edited a series of articles for Look that became the basis of A Guide to the Religions of America (1955) and The Story Behind the Painting (1962). Rosten enjoyed instant success with The Joys of Yiddish (1968), a comic lexicon that introduced millions of Americans to Yiddish words and idioms such as chutzpah and nosh that are now widely used. He followed it with The Joys of Yinglish (1989). He produced dozens of other works over more than 60 years of writing.

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Sweet and funny. I had to read some of the dialog aloud to understand it which led to concerned looks from my husband. When I finished When Books Went to War I decided to go through the list of American Service Editions and check out some titles I haven't read and this is one of them. A charming book.
 
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dhenn31 | 13 reseñas más. | Jan 24, 2024 |
illuminated dictionary
 
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SrMaryLea | 12 reseñas más. | Aug 23, 2023 |
from Good reads:
Exhaustive collection of Jewish wisdom excellently organized alphabetically by topic from Ability to Zohar. Annotated with source and attribution of authors of quote. Sources include but not limited to Torah, Talmud, Midrash, Rabbis, Moses ben Maimon, Nachman of Bratslav, Shalom Aleichem...
Very well indexed with table of contents.
An anthology guaranteed to warm your heart, make you grin and nod your head in agreement.
 
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TempleDavid | Aug 2, 2023 |
funniest dictionary ever
 
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