Talking Dirty in Yiddish? by Ilene Schneider Yiddish Learning Translated by Ruth Gay

Translated by Ruth Gay

Jacob Feldman

a meaningless infidelity: from such small seeds Zweig brings forth five startlingly tense tales--meditations on the fragility of love

Rabbi Harold Schulweis is known and respected as one of modern Judaism's most significant and creative thinkers and authors

Alexander “Sasha” Karnokovitch is devastated when his mother Rachela

Talking Dirty in Yiddish? by Ilene Schneider Yiddish Learning Translated by Ruth GayHave you wondered what the older generation was hiding when they spoke Yiddish in front of di kinder? Did you know that 'glitch' is a Yiddish word, but 'kitsch' is not? Have you tried to spell 'tchotchkes'? Have you noticed all the Yiddish words that are part of colloquial English? This book, a compendium of useful, and sometimes off color, words and phrases and how to use them to spice up your English conversations, explores these and many other