Award Name National Jewish Book Award Award category Yiddish Description About a thousand years ago, European Jews began speaking a language that was quite different from the various tongues and dialects that swirled around them.
In a world of earthly wandering, this pungent, witty, and infinitely nuanced speech, full of jokes, puns, and ironies, b.
It included Hebrew, a touch of the Romance and Slavic languages, and a large helping of German.
Award Name National Jewish Book Award Award category Yiddish Description About a thousand years ago, European Jews began speaking a language that was quite different from the various tongues and dialects that swirled around them