Drek!: The Real Yiddish Your Bubbe Never Taught You by Yetta Emmes

Drek!: The Real Yiddish Your Bubbe Never Taught You

Yetta Emmes with Kim Wilson Brandt (Illustrator)

112 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction funny reflective slow-paced
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One doesn't have to be Jewish to recognize the words that 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 synt...

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