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Do you know when to cry Mazel tov -- and when to avoid it like the plague? Did you know that Oy! is not a word, but a vocabulary with 29 distinct variations, sighed, cried, howled, or moaned, employed to express anything from ecstasy to horror? Here are words heard 'round the English-speaking world: chutzpa, or gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, " ... that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and his father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan." Then there's mish-mosh, or mess, hodgepodge, total confusion ... and shamus, or private eye. They're all here and more, in Leo Rosten's glorious classic The Joys of Yiddish, which weds scholarship to humor and redefines dictionary to reflect the heart and soul of a people through their language, illuminating each entry with marvelous stories and epigrams from folklore and the Talmud, from Bible to borscht belt and beyond. With Rosten's help, anyone can pronounce and master the nuances of words that convey everything from compassion to skepticism. Savor the irresistible pleasure of Yiddish in this banquet of a book!--Amazon.com.… (más)
SqueakyChu: Yiddish is a language so full of richness and innuendo that it needs to be preserved. Learn what Aaron Dansky did to try to prevent this language from disappearing.
Enjoyable book about the Yiddish language which is a mixture of German and Hebrew. It was spoken by the Eastern European Jews (like Tevya in the Fiddler on the Roof), many of whom came to the U.S. We have fun words from this language like schlemiel and kitsch. ( )
Autor u nás známý především svými humornými knížkami o panu Kaplanovi vtipnou formou přibližuje výrazy svého rodného jazyka, které jsou esencí židovského života se svou moudrostí, zvyky a anekdotami.
Is it a dictionary with illustrative jokes, or a joke-book with a veneer of scholarship? Either way, this charming volume works very well in getting across the mysteries and fun of Yiddish, a language whose lexicon has entered into the English language via immigrants. Rosten has a very deft touch in picking his jokes; sometimes, the joke is only tangential to the word it (allegedly) illustrates, and one suspects it's been put in there because it made the author laugh. A lot of fun to have. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
For my mother who taught me the mama-loshen and for my children and their children and theirs
Primeras palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Preface: I wrote this book because there was no other way in which I could have it.
Citas
Últimas palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
The rabbis often warned the laity not to court mental danger by two-deep immersion in the Zohar's cosmological mumbo-jumbo--and I can only agree with them.
Do you know when to cry Mazel tov -- and when to avoid it like the plague? Did you know that Oy! is not a word, but a vocabulary with 29 distinct variations, sighed, cried, howled, or moaned, employed to express anything from ecstasy to horror? Here are words heard 'round the English-speaking world: chutzpa, or gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, " ... that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and his father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan." Then there's mish-mosh, or mess, hodgepodge, total confusion ... and shamus, or private eye. They're all here and more, in Leo Rosten's glorious classic The Joys of Yiddish, which weds scholarship to humor and redefines dictionary to reflect the heart and soul of a people through their language, illuminating each entry with marvelous stories and epigrams from folklore and the Talmud, from Bible to borscht belt and beyond. With Rosten's help, anyone can pronounce and master the nuances of words that convey everything from compassion to skepticism. Savor the irresistible pleasure of Yiddish in this banquet of a book!--Amazon.com.
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