Kumove acknowledges several different sources for her collection. Thus, the collection comprises both sayings that live on in oral tradition and expressions that were documented and published early in the twentieth century. In addition, sayings from oral tradition possess idioms, implicit assumptions, local traditions, and regional variations. But the translator does not only face problems. Some recent facts make the translation of Yiddish into English easier, including the emergence of a generation of Jewish authors who write in English and the rise of Jewish comedians who have popularized Yiddish expressions and infused English with Yiddish words.
Several features comprise the rest of the book.
The sayings are presented in Yiddish, translated into English, and transliterated, so those who cannot read the Hebrew alphabet can still get the feeling of Yiddish phonetics. This book accomplishes a recontextualization of a part of the Eastern European Jewish culture for a wide audience.