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Follow-up to BORN TO KVETCH gets rave review
10.17.07
Once again, author Michael Wex has received a rare, front-page review for a book on Yiddish. In today's New York Times, reviewer William Grimes gushes over JUST SAY NU, the follow-up to Wex's previous bestseller, BORN TO KVETCH:
Books of The Times
Language of Variety (and Oy, the Insults!)
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Published: October 17, 2007
What’s Yiddish for double-dipping? With verve, élan and something only a non-Yiddish speaker would call chutzpah, Michael Wex returns to the linguistic mother lode that yielded “Born to Kvetch,” his brilliant cultural history of Yiddish. This time around, in “Just Say Nu,” he gets down to the everyday business of putting Yiddish to use. When a tipesh (moron) dawdles in front of you on the highway, selecting the right curse matters. Mr. Wex, like a Yiddish sommelier, knows just the expression for this or any other occasion.
The book is packaged as a primer, with a mild pretense of being an instruction manual. Mr. Wex lists Yiddish numerals, explains pronouns and includes drawings of a man and a woman with the principal body parts identified in Yiddish. This is all beside the point. Most readers will skip over the grammar and syntax and head right to Mr. Wex’s comic explanations of Yiddish phrases, and how to get maximum impact out of a language strong on aggression, contempt and abuse.
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