(English;Yiddish)
Emmes, Yetta
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Paperback
144 pages
Illustrations
Language: Yiddish
Published: 1998
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc USA
ISBN / EAN: 0452278996
One doesn't have to be Jewish to recognize the words which 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