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Drek: The Real Yiddish Your Bubbe Never Taught You
Drek The Real Yiddish Your Bubbe Never Taught You
Author: Yetta Emmes
One doesn't have to be Jewish to recognize the words that have made their way into every fold of popular language: Chutzpah, Mensch, Tokhes, Mishmash, Nudge, Shtick, Schmaltzy, Schlep, Icky, and so on. Then there are phrases whose meaning and syntax are borrowed from Yiddish: "bite your tongue", "drop dead", "enough already", and "excuse the exp...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780452278998
ISBN-10: 0452278996
Publication Date: 12/1/1998
Pages: 144
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Publisher: Plume Books
Book Type: Paperback
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