Yiddish & English: The Story of Yiddish in America
- ISBN-10
- 0817311033
- ISBN-13
- 9780817311032
- Category
- Foreign Language Study
- Pages
- 172
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-07-02
- Publisher
- University of Alabama Press
- Author
- Sol Steinmetz
Description
"With a collection of quotations from literature and the press, Steinmetz documents the unusually high lexical, semantic, and intonational exchanges between Yiddish and English in America. He offers more than 1,200 Yiddish words, expressions, idioms, and phrases that have melted into the English vernacular.".
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