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Renders him heir to Lenny Bruce, Leo Rosten and your favourite Yiddish teacher, all rolled into one... It is the embedding of thousands of years of Jewish lore in everyday situations that are inherently timeless... Besides, being a pleasure for anyone, every Yiddish student should really mamesh have to read it. --Jewish Chronicle
Wex… happens to be one of the finest living translators of Yiddish literature… He synthesises all his skills as a linguist, cultural historian and humorist in investigating the origins, uses and idiosyncrasies of modern Yiddish… A rich book from which one derives much pleasure and more than a little knowledge. --Jewish Renaissance
Wex… happens to be one of the finest living translators of Yiddish literature… He synthesises all his skills as a linguist, cultural historian and humorist in investigating the origins, uses and idiosyncrasies of modern Yiddish… A rich book from which one derives much pleasure and more than a little knowledge. --Jewish Renaissance
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Kvetching is to the Jewish soul what breathing is to the Jewish body. For Jews, kvetching is a way of understanding the world. It is rooted, like so much of Jewish culture, in the Bible where the Israelites grumble endlessly. They complain about their problems, and complain as much about the solutions. They kvetch in Egypt and they kvetch in the desert; no matter what God does, it s wrong. In Born to Kvetch Michael Wex looks into the origins of this surplus of disenchantment, and examines how it helped to create the abundance of striking idioms and curses in Yiddish. Michael Wex takes a serious but funny look at the language that has shaped and was shaped by those who spoke it.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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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.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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What a great gift book and a great book to lewrn form yourself too, i loved it and keep i on the dining table now, its brought so many smiles and we all have learned form it too.... its a great discussion topic too.... delving into our own delths and seeing what lies below....lol. Do get it.... then you can thank me..... ;-)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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If you ever wanted to spell a shrug and make it last a hundred pages or more, this is the book for you. Outsiders say we complain and moan. We don't and this book explains it all, slowly and clearly. Buy it.
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