Words Like Arrows: A Collection of Yiddish Folk Sayings (English and Yiddish Edition)

By Shirley Kumove

Book by Kumove, Shirley This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802024793
• ISBN13: 9780802024794
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.

Customer Reviews

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This collection of around two - thousand Yiddish sayings is an especially useful and enjoyable one. It has the saying written in the original Yiddish(with Hebrew letters) in a transliterated English and a translated English. It is organized alphabetically according to topics. . It provides a taste of the pain and humor of the Yiddish speaking world. The best review of this work would be to give samples, and I will give a few in English translation only. 'You don't send a dog to the butchers' 'Where there's too much, something's missing' 'If you don't have meat, you gnaw on bones' 'A wise man knows what he says, a fool says what he knows'.