Hooray for Yiddish!
Subtitle: a book about English
By: Leo Rosten.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; yid
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: Jewish wit and humor; Yiddish language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; English language -- Foreign elements -- Yiddish
Description: "A cheerful lexicon of Yiddish words which have become part of the English language, plus English words and phrases which have been trasformed into Yinglish; the whole garnished with stories, jokes, parables, reverent quotations from the Talmud and a glittering gallery of writers, rabbis, sages wits, with impulsive side trips into faith, folklore, genious and history of the Jews-- from their servitude in Babylon to their magnitude in Beverly Hills."