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1	Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All Its Moods more books like this by Michael Wex As the main spoken language of the Jews for more than a thousand years, Yiddish has had plenty to lament, plenty to conceal. Its phrases, idioms, and expressions paint a comprehensive picture of the mind-set that enabled the Jews of Europe to survive a millennium of unrelenting persecution: they never stopped "kvetching"---about God, gentiles, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods more books like this by Michael Wex As the main spoken language of the Jews for more than a thousand years, Yiddish has had plenty to lament, plenty to conceal. Through the idioms, phrases, metaphors, and fascinating history of this "kvetch-full tongue," Wex provides a moving and inspiring portrait of a people, and a language, in exile. see all copies from $2.60! new only from $5.78! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Just Say NU: Yiddish for Every Occasion (When English Just Won't Do) more books like this by Michael Wex From the author of the hilarious bestseller "Born to Kvetch" comes an indispensable guide to the Yiddish language. see all copies from $3.85! new only from $5.30! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Shlepping the Exile by Michael Wex This hilarious novel is an inside portrait of orthodox, post-Holocaust Judaism in a place that it never expected to be. It's the story of Yoine Levkes, boy hasid of the Canadian Prairies, his refugee parents ...confronted with dying people, an ailing culture, the perils of near orphanhood, the allures of Sabina Mandelbroit ...too religious to be ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.49! \| SVS
5	Classic Yiddish Stories of S.Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I.L. Peretz more books like this by Ken Frieden (Editor), Ted Gorelick (Translator), Michael Wex (Translator) Two novellas by S. Y. Abramovitsh open this anthology, the first comprehensive overview of works by the three classic Yiddish authors. They describe Jewish life in Eastern Europe during the nineteenth century and introduce the reader to Abramovitsh's alter ago, Mendele the Book Peddler. Here he presents a diverse cast of characters including Isaac ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $15.36! \| SVS
6	The Wishing-Ring more books like this by Mendele Mokher Sefarim, Michael Wex (Translator) A coming-of-age story of a shtetl child with a fresh and inspired perspective. The events of this novel unfold through the eyes of Hershl, who leaves his small town to become educated only to return to the Pale of Settlement in the wake of the pogroms in 1881. S. Y Abramovitsh's famed epic novel explores the social upheaval of Russian Jews who are ... see all copies from $23.28! new only from $25.08! \| first editions \| SVS

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