Anglish/Yinglish: Yiddish in American Life and Literature, Second Edition

by Gene Bluestein

Book Overview

Writers have celebrated the fruitful dialogue between English and Yiddish for decades. In this engrossing lexicon, Gene Bluestein reveals the full extent of that dialogue, introducing "Anglish, or Anglicized Yiddish, in which a Yiddish word is integrated into English usage, as in 'shmo'and 'shmoozing'; and Yinglish, or Yiddishized English, in which an English word is integrated into Yiddish usage, as in 'allrightnik, ' or the expression 'a Heifitz...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803261470
• ISBN13: 9780803261471
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"