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Drek!: The Real Yiddish Your Bubbe Never Taught You

Drek!: The Real Yiddish Your Bubbe Never Taught You


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About the Book

Drek! introduces readers to Yiddish slang, profanities and colloquialisms in a format that is designed to entertain as well as educate.

Table of Contents:
Drek!Introduction: A Note on Pronunciation and Spelling I. People: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (including a mensch, a momzer, and a mieser)II. The Sh Words: For Fools, Misfits, and Other Dysfunctional Types (from shlemiel to shlemazel) III. Words Your Bubbeh Never Taught You Some "bad" and bawdy words that made Bubbehs blush IV. Daily Reflections: Bewitched, Bothered, and Besotted (and Other States of Mind) (or farmisht, fartumelt, and farblonzhet) V. Exclamations and Exasperations (from Alevai to Zay gezunt) VI. The Fine Art of Cursing (such as A krenk zol im arayn in di yosles: May a disease enter his gums; and Er zol vaksen vi a tzibeleh mit dem kop in drerd: You should grow like an onion with your head in the ground.) VII. The Fine Art of Blessing (such as A gezunt dir in pupik: Good health in your belly; and Du zolst nit vissen fun tsores: You should never know from misery.) VIII. Proverbs and Sayings: The Wise and the Witty Yiddish wisdom through the ages IX. Food, Glorious Food (how to order everything from gefilte fish to a glezel tea) X. Yiddish for Everyday Occasions (how to say everything from Where is the post office? to Help!) XI. Love, Marriage, and the Jewish Family (from leben, to khasseneh, to get) XII. Words for the Shul (from what to wear [a tallis] to what to do [daven]) XIII. Juicy Yiddish Words and Phrases (from kitzel to a shtick mazel) XIV. Yinglish: The Yiddish You Already Know without Knowing It (from All right already to You should excuse the expression) Afterword: What Yiddish Looks Like, Reads Like, and Morphs Like

About the Author :
Yetta Emmes is a pseudonym for Eva Mekler, the author of, most recently, the novel Sunrise Shows Late. Mekler is also the author of nonfiction books on theater and psychology, including Contemporary Scenes For Student Actors, The New Generation Of Acting Teachers, and Bringing up a Moral Child. She resides in New York City.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780452278998
  • Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 112
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: The Real Yiddish Your Bubbe Never Taught You
  • Width: 137 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0452278996
  • Publisher Date: 01 Dec 1998
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Weight: 102 gr


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