Born To Kvetch

  • Autor: Michael Wex
  • Narrador: Michael Wex
  • Editora: HarperCollins USA
  • Duração: 10:24:10
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Sinopse

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.

Capítulos

  • Chapter 001

    Duração: 04min
  • Chapter 002

    Duração: 14min
  • Chapter 003

    Duração: 16min
  • Chapter 004

    Duração: 05min
  • Chapter 005

    Duração: 11min
  • Chapter 006

    Duração: 08min
  • Chapter 007

    Duração: 11min
  • Chapter 008

    Duração: 06min
  • Chapter 009

    Duração: 08min
  • Chapter 010

    Duração: 09min
  • Chapter 011

    Duração: 08min
  • Chapter 012

    Duração: 15min
  • Chapter 013

    Duração: 11min
  • Chapter 014

    Duração: 14min
  • Chapter 015

    Duração: 08min
  • Chapter 016

    Duração: 13min
  • Chapter 017

    Duração: 11min
  • Chapter 018

    Duração: 10min
  • Chapter 019

    Duração: 08min
  • Chapter 020

    Duração: 08min
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