The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Yiddish by Benjamin Blech

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Yiddish by Benjamin Blech

You're not idiot, of course. You can serve up a mean s'il vous plait in a French bistro, live la vida loca for a night of margaritas, and manage a sayonara after sushi, sake, and karaoke. But when it comes to throwing around a little Yiddish, you feel like a total nebbish Don't throw your hands in a helpless Oy, vey just yet The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Yiddish is your guide to this unique tongue, whether you're tackling rules of grammar or just throwing around some key phrases so you sound a little less goyish. In this Complete Idiot's Guide you get a fascinating explanation of how and why Yiddish developed, an easy introduction to the Yiddish alphabet, as well as the distinctive sound of Yiddish, and all the Yiddish you'll need for communicating with family and friends or for bargain-hunting on New York's Lower East Side. This book contains a treasury of Yiddish words and phrases for every occasion.

Rabbi Benjamin Blech is a well-known educator, religious leader, author, and lecturer in the United States. For more than three decades, he was the rabbi of Young Israel of Oceanside, and he is now an assistant professor of Torah at Yeshiva University in New York City. He has talked to Jewish communities in Israel, Australia, and many other nations as a scholar-in-residence for a number of congregations in the United States, Canada, and the Orient.

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ISBN 13	9780028633879
ISBN 10	0028633873
Title	The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Yiddish
Author	Benjamin Blech
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Alpha Books
Year published	2000-01-09
Number of pages	352
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