The Dictionary of Popular Yiddish Words, Phrases, and Proverbs

Author: Fred Kogos
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806518855
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 396

Book Description
This fascinating, useful, and funny collection of proverbs, curses, maxims, and ribald expressions will teach readers all they ever wanted to know about this remarkable language.

Dictionary of Yiddish Slang and Idioms

Author: Fred Kogos
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806503479
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
Yiddish idioms appear in romanized form.

English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English Dictionary

Author: David C. Gross
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
ISBN: 9780781804394
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
This Yiddish-English dictionary includes over 4,000 Romanized word-to-word entries; an appendix of idiomatic expressions & proverbs; and an appendix of common words used in the English language.

Modern English-Yiddish Dictionary

Author: Uriel Weinreich
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 0805205756
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 852

Book Description
The standard reference guide, with more than 20,000 entries ranging from colloquial to literary Yiddish, plus: a grammar guide, a pronunciation key, and instructions for usage Dr. Uriel Weinreich’s Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary has been praised by both scholars and Yiddish writers for its completeness, its remarkable insight into the meanings of Yiddish words and expressions, and its precise presentation of Yiddish grammar and pronunciation. It is the work of one of this century’s most admired scholars of Yiddish language and culture, and took twenty years to complete. Comprehensive and reliable, the Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary is the standard reference guide to contemporary Yiddish, an essential volume for the beginner and the expert alike.

ארומנעמיק ענגליש-יידיש ווערטערבוך (באזירט אויף די לעקסישע זאמלונגען פון מרדכי שעכטער)

Author: Mordkhe Schaechter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780253022820
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Yiddish
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Containing nearly 50,000 entries and 33,000 subentries, the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary emphasizes Yiddish as a living language that is spoken in many places around the world. The late Mordkhe Schaechter collected and researched spoken and literary Yiddish in all its varieties and this landmark dictionary reflects his vision for present-day and future Yiddish usage. The richness of dialect differences and historical developments are noted in entries ranging from "agriculture" to "zoology" and include words and expressions that can be found in classic and contemporary literature, newspapers, and other sources of the written word and have long been used by professionals and tradesmen, in synagogues, at home, in intimate life, and wherever Yiddish-speaking Jews have lived and worked.

Yiddish Sayings Mama Never Taught You

Author: Gershon Weltman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781440140167
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"A cute and charming addition to Yiddish folklore." -I.B. Singer, Nobel Prize, 1978 "Juicy, savory, spicy." -Henry Miller The Yiddish sayings in this book have been praised by such world-acclaimed writers as Henry Miller and Isaac Bashevis Singer. They should equally delight all who can appreciate the coarse, wry humor of the turn-of-the-century European shtetl, which gave rise to so much of American humor as well. Some may be offended by their sexuality and lewdness, but they expose the basic humanity of a lost Jewish culture. For too long eydlkayt - refinement - has drawn a curtain over the smutty side of the shtetl. Enjoyable folklore, funny sayings you'll find yourself using in quite modern situations.

A dictionary of Yiddish slang & idioms

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 167

Book Description

Dirty Yiddish

Author: Adrienne Gusoff
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1612430805
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 185

Book Description
Next time you’re chattin’ with your khaverim (friends) and mishpukheh (family), bust out some Yiddish expressions that’ll liven up the conversation. Nothing is censored in Dirty Yiddish. It includes phrases for any situation, so readers have enough chutzpah (balls) to tell the local deli that they’ve waited long enough for their knish, and explicit swear words crude enough to shock Bubby and everyone else at the Passover seder. There’s even vulgar sex terminology so graphic it puts the outspoken Lower East Side princesses to shame. Bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including cool slang, funny insults, explicit sex terms, and raw swear words. Dirty Yiddish teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of New York . . . What’s up? Vos makhst du? Crazy bastard! Meshuggeneh momzer! I’m hammered. Ikh bin fershikkert. Don’t fuck with me! Bareh mikh nit! I have the shits. Ikh hob a shittern mogn. Lick my pussy. Lekh meyn lokh. Was it good for you? Tsufreedn?

Drek!

Author: Yetta Emmes
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780452278998
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
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 expression". This hilarious, concise guide includes chapters on the Basic Descriptions of People (the good, the bad, the ugly, and the goofy), the Fine Art of Cursing, Juicy Words and Phrases, Exclamations and Exasperations, and the Fine Art of Blessing.

Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary

Author: Solon Beinfeld
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253009838
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Including over 37,000 entries compiled by a team of expert Yiddish linguists, Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary surpasses all its predecessors in the number of words and rich selection of idioms, examples of usage, and coverage of stylistic levels and dialect forms. The user-friendly entries include words for standard and literary as well as contemporary colloquial and conversational usage and a wide range of terms from all sources of Yiddish, including those of Hebraic-Aramaic, Slavic, and Romance as well as Germanic origin. The lexical corpus comes directly from the highly acclaimed Dictionnaire Yiddish-Français by Yitskhok Niborski and Bernard Vaisbrot, published by the Bibliothèque Medem in Paris in 2002. Augmented by an extensive user's guide, this volume is an indispensable resource for students, teachers, translators, and readers of Yiddish.