Just Say Nu: Yiddish for Every Occasion When English Just Won't Do - Brossura

Wex, Michael

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0061657328 ISBN 13: 9780061657320

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2008

Riassunto

A practical and lighthearted guide to using Yiddish in everyday situations provides introductory grammatical guidelines while counseling practitioners on how to make their way through conversations in a variety of occasions or situations. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

With verve, élan and something only a non-Yiddish speaker would call chutzpah, Michael Wex returns to the linguistic mother lode that yielded Born to Kvetch, his brilliant cultural history of Yiddish. This time around in Just Say Nu, he gets down to the everyday business of putting Yiddish to use. (William Grimes, The New York Times)

This is not your bubbe s-or Leo Rosten s-Yiddish. Translator, novelist and performer Wex follows his witty and erudite Born to Kvetch with a colorful, uncensored guide to the idiomatic, use of Yiddish in such areas as madness, fury and driving. Wex s advice on the complex usage of these words can help even the greenest Yiddish speaker. (Publishers Weekly)

More than just a dictionary, Wex s book waxes on the possible Biblical origins of certain phrases and offers useful phrases as well. Wex s parents must be kvelling. (New York Post)

L'autore:

MICHAEL WEX is a novelist, professor, translator (including the only Yiddish translation of The Threepenny Opera), lecturer, and performer (of stand-up and one person shows). Wex has been hailed as a Yiddish national treasure and is one of the leading lights in the current revival of Yiddish, lecturing widely on Yiddish and Jewish culture. He lives in Toronto.

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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061657328
• ISBN 13: 9780061657320
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304