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Born to Kvetch - Yiddish Language And Cu by WEX MICHAEL
19.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A delightful excursion through the Yiddish language, the culture it defines and serves, and the fine art of complaint Throughout history, Jews around the world have had plenty of reasons to lament. And for a thousand years, they've had the perfect language for it. Rich in color, expressiveness, and com ...Show more
Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods by WEX MICHAEL
29.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
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 in the Bible where the Israelites grumbles endlessly. This book looks at the origins of this surplus of disenchantment, and examines how it helped to create the idi ...Show more
How to Be a Mentsh (and Not a Shmuck) by Michael Wex
12.99 AUD
Category: Humour
There are people out there, millions of them, who act as if they still believe everything that their mothers told them in the first six months of their life: they're the nicest, most beautiful, most promising and intelligent bags of flesh ever to walk the earth, and anybody who can't see it is a jealou ...Show more
Just Say Nu: Yiddish for Every Occasion (When English Just Won't Do) by Michael Wex
27.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
In his "New York Times" bestseller, "Born to Kvetch," author Michael Wex led readers on a hilariously edifying excursion through Yiddish culture and history. With "Just Say Nu," he shows us how to use this remarkable language to spice up conversations, stories, presentations, arguments, and more, when p ...Show more
Rhapsody in Schmaltz: Yiddish Food and Why We Can't Stop Eating It by Michael Wex
49.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
Bagels, deli sandwiches and gefilte fish are only a few of the Jewish foods to have crossed into American culture and onto American plates. "Rhapsody in Schmaltz "traces the history and social impact of the cuisine that Yiddish-speaking Jews from Central and Eastern Europe brought to the U.S. and that t ...Show more
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