Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon's previous books include The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), The Yiddish Policemen's Union (winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards and an Edgar Award finalist), Wonder Boys, The Mysteries of ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Yiddish English Dictionary
 Nice Yiddish Dictionary: I think that giving this book four stars was fairly generous of me. This book has it's advantages and disadvantages as any dictionary does. The thing that I liked about it was that you get alot considering what you pay for it. It [... more]
CDN$11.50
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Schlepping Through the Alps
My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd Hans Breuer, Austria's only wandering shepherd, is also a Yiddish folksinger. He walks the Alps, shepherd's stick in hand, singing lullabies to his 625 sheep. Sometimes he even ... [... more]
Random House |
Lawrence Bush
Enjoy the most comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. With the recent renaissance of interest in Yiddish, and in keeping with a language that embodies the variety and vibrancy ... [... more]
Random House |
Ruth R. Wisse
Ruth R. Wisse is Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Born in Czernowitz (now part of Ukraine) and raised in Montreal, she was the first professor to offer courses in Yiddish ... [... more]
Random House |
Neal Karlen
Neal Karlen was speaking Yiddish at home well before he was a staff writer at Newsweek and Rolling Stone. A regular contributor to the New York Times, he has authored six other books, most recently Shanda: The Making and Breaking of a ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Yiddish With Dick & Jane
I'm still laughing!! : ): What a joy-filled delight this book is! I laughed from the first page to the last. I'm a member of the See Spot Run generation who learned to read with the "Dick and Jane" primer, but I've now given the book to a [... more]
CDN$21.95
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The Dictionary of Popular Yiddish Words, Phrases, and ...
very limited vocabulary with no prounciation assistance: We would consider it generous to award this book one star. 1) We have never before seen a dictionary which did not offer assistance with pronounciation. 2) We have been unable to locate many words [... more]
CDN$25.59
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Yiddish with George and Laura
This is a Panic!: This one is even funnier than "Yiddish With Dick & Jane." The George Bush family speaking "Yinglish" and interspersing Yiddish words with English is a hoot! I laughed so hard that I wiped tears of laughter from [... more]
CDN$18.99
Amazon CA |
Complete Idiot Guide Learning Yiddish
From Amazon.com: Whether you're getting back to your roots or getting ready for your first seder, it couldn't hurt to get a little help with your Yiddish, and the formidable Rabbi Benjamin Blech is here to lend a hand with the self-deprecatingly named [... more]
CDN$25.95
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Say It in Yiddish
i almost plotzed!: when i got this buch, i kvelled all the way home from shul...Shalom all! a travel dictionary, not a compendium of Yiddish humor: After reading the reviews, I wrongly assumed that this was a book that had a number of humorous phrases [... more]
CDN$8.50
Amazon CA |
You Cant Do Business Or Most Anything Else Without Yiddish
a great little gift: It's a fast read, providing a giggle on almost every page. Although he focuses on the colorful Yiddish language, Leon Gilden guides the reader through the history of the Jewish experience from the shtetel to comtemoprary America. The [... more]
CDN$20.50
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