Born To Kvetch
- Autor: Michael Wex
- Narrador: Michael Wex
- Editor: HarperCollins USA
- Duración: 10:24:10
Sinopsis
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.
This is no bobe mayse (cock-and-bull story) from a khokhem be-layle (idiot, literally a "sage at night" when no one's looking), but a serious yet fun and funny look at a language. From tukhes to goy, meshugener to kvetch, Yiddish words have permeated and transformed English as well. Through the fascinating history of this kvetch-full tongue, Michael Wex gives us a moving and inspiring portrait of a people, and a language, in exile.
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Chapter 022
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Chapter 024
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Chapter 026
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Chapter 027
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Chapter 028
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Chapter 029
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Chapter 030
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Chapter 031
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Chapter 032
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Chapter 033
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Chapter 034
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Chapter 035
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Chapter 036
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Chapter 037
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Chapter 038
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Chapter 039
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Chapter 040
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