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London : W. H. Allen, 1970. 1st UK edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xxxix, 547 pages ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Yiddish language; Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Jewish wit and humor; English language, Foreign words and phrases Yiddish.
The Joys of Yiddish. A relaxed lexicon of Yiddish, Hebrew and Yinglish words often encountered in English, plus dozens that ought to be, with serendipitous excursions into Jewish humour, habits, holidays, history, religion, ceremonies, folklore, and cuisine; the whole generously garnished with stories, anecdotes, epigrams, Talmudic quotations, folk sayings and jokes - from the days of the Bible to those of the beatnik. by ROSTEN, Leo
by ROSTEN, Leo
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The Joys of Yiddish. A relaxed lexicon of Yiddish, Hebrew and Yinglish words often encountered in English, plus dozens that ought to be, with serendipitous excursions into Jewish humour, habits, holidays, history, religion, ceremonies, folklore, and cuisine; the whole generously garnished with stories, anecdotes, epigrams, Talmudic quotations, folk sayings and jokes - from the days of the Bible to those of the beatnik.
by ROSTEN, Leo
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New York, Toronto etc., McGraw 1968. gr.-8°. XXXVIII, 533 S., 1 Bl. OLn. Schnitt tlw. fleckig EA
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The joys of Yiddish : a relaxed lexicon of Yiddish, Hebrew and Yinglish words often encountered in English ... from the days of the Bible to those of the beatnik
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Blacklick, Ohio, U.S.A.: McGraw-Hill. Very Good. 1968. First Edition Third Printing. Hard Cover. (H494) .
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