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More than a quarter of a century ago, Leo Rosten published the first comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply exp...
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A Book about English
Humorist, novelist, journalist, magazine editor, & Yiddish maven, Leo Rosten has left a legacy of work that continues to gladden the hearts of readers...
A Relaxed Lexicon of Yiddish, Hebrew and Yinglish Words Often Encountered in English ... from the Days of the Bible to Those of the Beatnik
Do you know when to cry Mazel tov -- and when to avoid it like the plague? Did you know that Oy! is not a word, but a vocabulary with 29 distinct vari...
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...
Examines religion in the United States today, with nineteen essays in the first section that discuss religious creeds from the major established group...
"The hilarious, timeless tale about a unique American experience"--Cover...
The English dictionary contains many Yiddish words that have won acceptance in our everyday language. We shlep our bags to the car, admire the chutzpa...
Humorous stories about the American Preparatory School for Adults. In this new series Hyman Kaplan is again the star....
The Movie Colony, the Movie Makers
Rosten has created a sweeping survey of that colorful, mischievous, and sardonic amalgam of Yiddish and English that has had such enormous impact wher...
Twenty years after his first collection of tales about that Don Quixote of adult education, Leo Rosten brought Hyman Kaplan back for a second term on ...
Or, Some of My Best Friends are People
Twenty-six humorous essays on a variety of subjects, including "Why Not Rent a Child?" "The Glories of the Press," "Delicious Scoundrels," and "How Sp...
Captain Newman is the pivotal point upon which revolves this realistic account of both hilarious and poignant episodes involving disturbed personaliti...
Stories, Humor, Social Commentary, Travelogues, Satire, Memoirs, Profiles, and Sundry Entertainments Never Before Published; with a Special Introd., Background Notes, Revelations and Confessions, All Hand-written and Themselves Worth the Price of Admission
Leonard Q. Ross
A gleeful almanac of facts, fables, information, trivia, and bons mots debunks popular misconceptions, cliches, stereotypes, and pomposities with hear...
A Completely Revised and Up-to-date Guide to Churches and Religious Groups in the United States. The Famous LOOk Magazine Series on Religion, Greatly Amplified and Rewritten, Plus the Most Complete and Authoritative Compilation of Facts, Figures, Tables, Charts, Articles and Reference Material on Religion in Any Published Volume