Stated First Edition. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Slight spine lean. Soiling to the edges of the book's upper page block. The dust jacket has small chips at its spine tips and corners. Rubbing along the outer folds.

Silky!: A detective story

Rosten, Leo.

Harper&Row

Hyman Kaplan, or H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N as he habitually signs himself, is a fictional character in a series of well-received, humorous stories by Leo Rosten, published under the pseudonym "Leonard Q. Ross" in The New Yorker in the 1930s and later collected in two books,

O Kaplan! My Kaplan!

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

People I Have Loved, Known or Admired, 1970 1st Editiion, by Leo Rosten. Hardcover with dust jacket, 410 pages, published by McGraw-Hill.

People I have Love, Known, Or Admired

McGraw=Hill

Elizabeth I's last great speech, an account of Marco Polo's return to Venice, and writings by Mencken, Wilde, and Twain are among the selections included in a collection of excerpts that represents Rosten's lifelong love for the printed word

Infinite Riches

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Leo Rosten wrote his first tale of Hyman Kaplan when he was 24 and it was published to great applause by the New Yorker. Over the next two years the magazine ran all 15 of the original stories that were eventually published in 1937 as The Education of Hyman Kaplan.

The Education of Hyman Kaplan.

Contemporary

Penguin

The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated

Read by4 cassettes/6 hoursWith joy and unrestrained kvelling, Random House AudioBooks announces a smartly updated new edition of Leo Rosten's classic celebration and exploration of the Yiddish language—the first time on audio!From chutzpa to shmooze, oy vay to shlep, a wealth of Yiddish words have entered common American parlance, rolling off the tongues of Jews and non-Jews alike. More than a quarter of a century ago, Leo Rosten presented the first comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of this colorful and deeply expressive language. The New Joys of Yiddish went on to become a perennial bestseller in both hardcover and paperback.With the recent renaissance of interest in Yiddish, and in keeping with a language that embodies the variety and vibrancy of life itself, this new edition brings Rosten's masterful work up to date. Revised by editor Lawrence Bush, in close consultation with Rosten's daughters, it retains the spirit of the original—with its wonderful jokes, tidbits of cultural history, Talmudic and Biblical references, and tips on pronunciation—and enhances it with hundreds of new entries and thoughtful commentary on how Yiddish has evolved over the years.The New Joys of Yiddish is nothing less than a mitzvah ("a 'good work,' a virtuous, kind, considerate, ethical deed") for those who loved the original book and for those discovering the pleasures of Yiddish for the first time.

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Random House Audio |

Read by5 CDs/6 hoursWith joy and unrestrained kvelling, Random House AudioBooks announces a smartly updated new edition of Leo Rosten's classic celebration and exploration of the Yiddish language—the first time on audio!From chutzpa to shmooze, oy vay to shelp, a wealth of Yiddish words have entered common American parlance, rolling off the tongues of Jews and non-Jews alike. More than a quarter of a century ago, Leo Rosten presented the first comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of this colorful and deeply expressive language. The New Joys of Yiddish went on to become a perennial bestseller in both hardcover and paperback.With the recent renaissance of interest in Yiddish, and in keeping with a language that embodies the variety and vibrancy of life itself, this new edition brings Rosten's masterful work up to date. Revised by editor Lawrence Bush, in close consultation with Rosten's daughters, it retains the spirit of the original—with its wonderful jokes, tidbits of cultural history, Talmudic and Biblical references, and tips on pronunciation—and enhances it with hundreds of new entries and thoughtful commentary on how Yiddish has evolved over the years.The New Joys of Yiddish is nothing less than a mitzvah ("a 'good work,' a virtuous, kind, considerate, ethical deed") for those who loved the original book and for those discovering the pleasures of Yiddish for the first time.

Cloth binding in jacket, orange inside flaps, 189 pages, book in new condition, the white jacket has minor discoloration, jacket price clipped. Doubleday, 1972, stated First Edition

Rome Wasn't Burned in a Day: The Mischief of Language,

DOUBLEDAY

A look at the joining of English and Yiddish into "Yinglish" employs scholarship, humor, and linguistic anthropology to discuss the effects of the marriage of the two languages. Reprint.

The Joys of Yinglish

Signet

A humorous Yiddish/English reference traces the assimilation of Yiddish words, phrases, and locutions into the English language

Plume

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Silky!: A detective story

O Kaplan! My Kaplan!

People I have Love, Known, Or Admired

Infinite Riches

The Education of Hyman Kaplan.

The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated

The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated

Rome Wasn't Burned in a Day: The Mischief of Language,

The Joys of Yinglish

The Joys of Yinglish