Born To Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All Its Moods
by Michael Wex
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Author: Michael WexEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-09-01
ISBN: 0312307411
Number of pages: 303
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
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Book Review: You don't have to be Jewish to kvetch
Summary: 5 Stars
I fell in love with this book from the first to the last page. The use of Jewish humour is subtle and plays on words. This book by Michael Wex gives insight into Yiddish in all its moods. Yiddish began to develop as the Jews moved across europe and this book give the meanings of expressions, used in all walks of life. Religion, Curses, Misery,and money , Courtship and Marriage, The whole gambit ot life and even death. In this book there is humour even in the end of life.
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