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ISBN 10: 0061132179

ISBN 13: 978-0061132179

Author:  Michael Wex 

Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods 1st Edition: 

From The Three Stooges to Seinfeld, Born to Kvetch is a smart and witty portrait of Yiddish and its relationship to both Jewish culture and American life.

“An earthy romp through the lingua franca of Jews…. This treasure trove of linguistics, sociology, history and folklore offers a fascinating look at how, through the centuries, a unique and enduring language has reflected an equally unique and enduring culture.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

The main spoken language of the Jews for more than 1,000 years, Yiddish offers a comprehensive picture of the mind-set that enabled them to survive a millennium of unrelenting persecution across Europe. Through the idioms, phrases, metaphors, and fascinating history of this wonderful tongue, Michael Wex gives us a moving and inspiring portrait of a people, and a language, in exile.

From tukhes to goy, meshugener to bobe mayse (cok-and-bull story), Born to Kvetch offers a wealth of material, some that has never appeared in English before, on all elements of Yiddish life, including food, nature, divinity, humanity, and even sex.

 

Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods 1st Edition Table of contents:

• Kvetch Que C’est? – The Origins of Yiddish
• Six Feet Under, Baking Bagels – Yiddish in Action
• Something Else to Kvetch About – Yiddish Dialects
• Pigs, Poultry, and Pampers – The Religious Roots of Yiddish
• Discouraging Words – Yiddish and the Forces of Darkness
• You Should Grow Like an Onion – The Yiddish Curse
• If It Wasn’t for Bad Luck – Mazl, Misery, and Money
• “Bupkes Means a Lot of Nothing” – Yiddish and Nature
• Making a Tsimmes – Food: Kosher and Treyf
• A Slap in the Tukhes and Hello – Yiddish Life from Birth to Bar Mitzvah
• More Difficult Than Splitting the Red Sea – Courtship and Marriage
• Too Good for the Goyim – Sex in Yiddish
• It Should Happen to You – Death in Yiddish

 

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