Yiddish & English: The Story of Yiddish in America Yiddish & English by Sol Steinmetz Dictionaries and Gedalia desperately wanted to

and Gedalia desperately wanted to emulate the king's ways by fulfilling the mitzvos (commandments)

American Matchmaker looks ahead to the films of Woody Allen

which includes a foreword by the noted author and literary critic Morris Dickstein

and―with the help of fellow journalist Parvaneh Vahidmanesh―documenting how they lived

Yiddish & English: The Story of Yiddish in America Yiddish & English by Sol Steinmetz Dictionaries and Gedalia desperately wanted toThis is the only book to seriously treat the intriguing linguistic and cultural phenomenon of the intimate contact between Yiddish and English over the past 120 years. Yiddish arrived in America as the mother tongue of millions of Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe. Not only did this language without a homeland survive in the great American melting pot, it infiltrated the majority language, English, with a wide variety of new words and expressions