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9780781808187

You Can't Do Business (Or Most Anything Else) Without Yiddish

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  • ISBN13:

    9780781808187

  • ISBN10:

    0781808189

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-08-01
  • Publisher: Hippocrene Books

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Summary

Filled with definitions of popular Yiddish words, jokes, cartoons, and the author's own humorous comments and observations, this book provides a crash course (or refresher) on Yiddish that will have the reader laughing out loud and turning pages for more.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi
The Garment Center (From Design to the Finished Product; The Buyers Are Waiting)
1(10)
Food, Restaurants and Catering (Eat Your Heart Out)
11(18)
Show Biz (Tin Pan Alley to the Borscht Belt; Broadway to Hollywood)
29(12)
Cops and Robbers (Gangster Talk)
41(10)
Family, Friends and ``Nuchshleppers'' (Hangers On)
51(38)
Family
55(3)
Family Stuff That We Can't Do Without
58(3)
Holidays the Family Celebrates
61(8)
Words and Expressions the Family Uses When Talking About Other Members of the Family, Friends, and Nuchshleppers
69(16)
Family Togetherness
85(2)
Family Curses
87(2)
Slang, Curse Words, The Anatomy and other ``Shmutzike Zachn'' (Dirty Things)
89(12)
Yiddishisms and Englishisms
101(10)
Law and Politics
111(8)
Index 119(8)
Biographies 127

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