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Author Wex, Michael, 1954-

Title Born to kvetch [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] Yiddish language and culture in all its moods / written and read by Michael Wex.

Imprint [New York, N.Y.] : HarperAudio, 2006.
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Playing Time 102330
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Unabridged.
Duration: 10:23:30.
Performer Read by the author.
Summary 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 and expressions paint a comprehensive picture of the mind-set that enabled the Jews of Europe to survive persecution: they never stopped kvetching about God, gentiles, children, and everything else. In Born to Kvetch, Michael Wex looks at the ingredients that went into this buffet of disenchantment and examines how they were mixed together to produce an almost limitless supply of striking idioms and withering curses. Born to Kvetch includes a wealth of material that's never appeared in English before.
System Details Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 149354 KB).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject Yiddish language -- History -- Sound recording. -- Sound recordings.
Yiddish language -- Social aspects -- Sound recording. -- Sound recordings.
Jews -- Civilization -- Sound recording. -- Sound recordings.
Genre Audiobooks.
Yiddish wit and humor.
ISBN 9780061173240 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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