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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, like so much of Jewish culture, in the Bible where the Israelites grumble endlessly. They complain about their problems, and complain as much about the solutions. They kvetch in Egypt and they kvetch in the desert; no matter what God does, it s wrong. In Born to Kvetch Michael Wex looks into the origins of this surplus of disenchantment, and examines how it helped to create the abundance of striking idioms and curses in Yiddish. Michael Wex takes a serious but funny look at the language that has shaped and was shaped by those who spoke it.
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A moving and inspiring history of the Jewish people and how that history is carried within the Yiddish language.
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Renders him heir to Lenny Bruce, Leo Rosten and your favourite Yiddish teacher, all rolled into one... It is the embedding of thousands of years of Jewish lore in everyday situations that are inherently timeless... Besides, being a pleasure for anyone, every Yiddish student should really mamesh have to read it. --Jewish Chronicle
Wex... happens to be one of the finest living translators of Yiddish literature... He synthesises all his skills as a linguist, cultural historian and humorist in investigating the origins, uses and idiosyncrasies of modern Yiddish... A rich book from which one derives much pleasure and more than a little knowledge. --Jewish Renaissance
Wex... happens to be one of the finest living translators of Yiddish literature... He synthesises all his skills as a linguist, cultural historian and humorist in investigating the origins, uses and idiosyncrasies of modern Yiddish... A rich book from which one derives much pleasure and more than a little knowledge. --Jewish Renaissance
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- PublisherSouvenir Press Ltd
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0285638890
- ISBN 13 9780285638891
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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