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Title: Meshuggenary : Celebrating the World of Yiddish by Payson R. Stevens, Charles M. Levine, Sol Steinmetz ISBN: 0-7432-2742-5 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 06 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: GET in on the business language
Comment: Today the business world has inherited the language of Yiddish. This is because most small businessmen used to be Jewish or worked with Jewish people. In today's world the businesman might be hispanic or black, but everyone still throws in Yiddish words.
Wouldn't it be nice to know what those words mean. This book will teach you Yiddish terms.
In the process learn about Jewish history and the history of Yiddish. They are not the same. Lean the difference.
I found the book very enlightening. So will you. I know the author personally and he is for real.
Rating: 5
Summary: Meshuggenary
Comment: It is always a pleasure to get a little extra. It's even better to get a lot extra! When I read Meshuggenry, not only did it explain many Yiddish expressions that are as American as bagels, I also got a seasoning of the life and spirit that fermented in the world of Yiddish. Take Klezmer music. In a few pages you get a history of its origins and its continual and present reincarnations. Take Yiddish Food and Cooking. A little history, a nosh of Yiddish food terms and some mouth-watering recipes. There are chapters on Yiddish humor and theater, but it's the insight to the Yiddish language and soul that makes this very readable concise book very special. That's the little extra! Meshuggenary is not only enjoyable to read, you are let into Yiddish insights that are still evolving. After wandering for many years from Brooklyn, to New Jersey, to California, it was good to read about my roots. Get off your tokhes and order a copy of Meshuggenary.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Meshuggenary World
Comment: An absolute delight--the authors have produced a very lively academic book (which may well be an oxymoron). I wonder what early Yiddishists would say if they could now see what impact Yiddish (and Yinglish, etc.) have had on American speech, language and culture. I suspect that they would have been amazed at what they, their successors and G_d had wrought. Only in America. And you don't have to be Jewish to kvell at Meshuggenary which is a landmark success. It will not be easy in the years to come to challenge the depth, insight and completeness of the book.
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Title: Drek: The Real Yiddish Your Bubbe Never Taught You by Yetta Emmes ISBN: 0452278996 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Yiddish by Rabbi Benjamin Blech ISBN: 0028633873 Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 19 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: How to Talk Jewish by Jackie Mason, Ira Berkow ISBN: 0312072368 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Say It in Yiddish by Dover ISBN: 048620815X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1958 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Yiddish : A Nation of Words by Miriam Weinstein ISBN: 0345447301 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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