How to Talk Jewish

How to Talk Jewish
Author: Jackie Mason
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 149
Release: 1992
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0312072368


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Using his hilarious and insightful wit to explain the meaning of every term he covers, Jackie Mason offers a picture window into a world of words that only he could elucidate. From yenta to schtick, Mason gives not only the literal meaning of Yiddish words and phrases, but, as an added attraction, his own interpretive explanation.


How to Talk Jewish
Language: en
Pages: 149
Authors: Jackie Mason
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Macmillan

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Using his hilarious and insightful wit to explain the meaning of every term he covers, Jackie Mason offers a picture window into a world of words that only he c
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Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: Molly Katz
Categories: Humor
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-01 - Publisher: Workman Publishing

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Pages: 305
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Pages: 296
Authors: Ruth R. Wisse
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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"Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as wel
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Language: en
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Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
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Tracking an underground language and the outcasts who depended on it for their survival. Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in