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Chargement... Yiddish, you say? Nu?: A Yiddish Wordbookpar Sasha Newborn
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A vocabulary of Yiddish terms, common expressions, and proverbs. Many Yiddish terms have entered the English language, describing character or emotion (usually displeasure) that have no ready equivalent, such as klutz, kvetch, shmoose, or kibbitz. Yiddish as a language grew out of Medieval German and Hebrew, and spread through Eastern Europe among Ashkenazi Jews. With the worldwide spread of Jewry in many countries, Yiddish plays two roles: as a language unto itself, and as a "lending" language for terms and attitudes about business, sexuality, or human relations. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Yiddish, a Germanic language filled with expressions and words from Hebrew, has a rich vocabulary relating to human beings, emotions, attitudes—with blessings and a wealth of curses or exclamations. The editor spent five years in New York City, which is the second largest Jewish city in the world; Yiddish was part of daily life. Many Yiddish words or expressions have been absorbed into the English language, which had no term for schlemiel or klutz or shtick or kvetch or kibbitz or schlock or plotz or nosh or…
Read it for fun, read it to enrich your vocabulary. ISBN 978-0-930012-65-6