If You Can't Say Anything Nice, Say It in Yiddish: The Book of Yiddish Insults and Curses

If you want to know what to say when you don't want to let them know...buy this book. Wonderful.

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Hilarious and a great book about Yiddish

I learned some new words or phrases. It can repeat some words n phrases. I’m thinking on the catagory they fit. No a bad read. Oh there are different spelling of words in Yiddish from where the author spells words I know differently. I don’t mind.

This is the perfect book for my Yiddish Class.

Brought back memories… very funny.

This is a fun read and a great way to learn a little Yiddish. Don’t be a putz, buy it!

It's a fun volume to browse through, but I was disappointed to see that it only has latin transliterations of Yiddish (followed by re-transliterations? with italics to emphasize stress). The cover, I hadn't noticed when I ordered, has faux-Hebrew characters.I'm also disappointed by the redundancy of some of the sections. Take my photo as an example. "May a demon take your father" "May a demon take your father's father" "May a demon take your grandfather" "May a demon take your father's son" "May a demon take your thieving father". These are all the exact same thing with minor variations in the target or adjectives and feels like padded content.Still, a reasonably amusing book, just not the authoritative tome I'd hoped it might be.

This book is a joy to grab and read in bursts. It’s so funny! It took a fair bit of time to arrive from the USA but worth the wait.

A fascinating read starting with the origins of the wonderful Yiddish language. I quote the first sentence, "Yiddish is the language that helped Jews survive when being persecuted in Europe and Russia during numerous periods, starting with the First Crusades in 1096." Many Yiddish words are in use today such as bagel, shmooze and so on. I think the language is rich in emotions, and indeed there are some words which I believe are so descriptive no other translations are required. If the language interests you then this book is a must buy and worthy of the 5* rating.

As advertised, in good shape.

One of the juiciest books I have ever bought, explains what so many words mean that you didn’t even realise were Yiddish. Explains the origins of the language and very very well written. Explains the term in English and the correct pronunciation. Funny and amusing but wow some of the contents are eye opening to say the least. Well worth a read. X

the beginning gives interesting information about the history of the language. Then came the best part: there are some hillarious examples of 'curses' and insults, that the author felt needed full conversations to 'help' them, which were not needed and which after a while became somewhat tedious. The part with the curses and insults was quite short, (hardly about a third of the book). The last part of the book was repeating all the curses and insults we read in the previous pages - but this time in Alphabetic order and organized from English to Yiddish. And if that wasn't enough - they were all repeated yet again, this time organized from Yiddish to English.it could have been an excellent booklet - but it was 'fattened' up into a small book - by telling the reader everything - 3 times...:-(