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Leo Rosten (1907–1997)

Auteur van The Joys of Yiddish

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He was the author of The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*P*L*A*N, Captain Newman, M.D., and countless other books, articles, and screenplays. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Werken van Leo Rosten

The Joys of Yiddish (1970) 964 exemplaren
Religions of America (1963) 471 exemplaren
The Education of Hyman Kaplan (1937) 372 exemplaren
Hooray for Yiddish (1982) 282 exemplaren
The Return of Hyman Kaplan (1959) 134 exemplaren
The Joys of Yinglish (1989) 130 exemplaren
Captain Newman, M.D. (1961) 79 exemplaren
O Kaplan! My Kaplan! (1976) 63 exemplaren
Look Book (1962) 36 exemplaren
A Most Private Intrigue (1967) 29 exemplaren
The Story Behind the Painting (1962) 21 exemplaren
THE MANY WORLDS OF LEO ROSTEN (1962) 15 exemplaren
King Silky! (1980) 13 exemplaren
The 3:10 to anywhere (1976) 12 exemplaren
Silky (1979) 10 exemplaren
Infinite Riches (1979) 8 exemplaren
The Power of Positive Nonsense (1977) 6 exemplaren
A Trumpet for Reason (1970) 6 exemplaren
The Washington Correspondents (1974) 3 exemplaren
The Strangest Places 2 exemplaren
oy oy oy! 1 exemplaar
The Bathroom Reader 1 exemplaar

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Gangbare naam
Rosten, Leo
Officiële naam
Rosten, Leo Calvin
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
Ross, Leonard Q.
Geboortedatum
1907-04-11
Overlijdensdatum
1997-02-19
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
Russian Empire (birth)
USA
Geboorteplaats
Lodz, Poland
Plaats van overlijden
New York, New York, USA
Woonplaatsen
Lodz, Russian Empire (now Poland)
New York, New York, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Opleiding
University of Chicago
London School of Economics
Beroepen
teacher
screenwriter
lexicographer
novelist
humorist
journalist
Relaties
Rosten, Carrie (granddaughter)
Mead, Margaret (sister-in-law)
Steig, William (brother-in-law)
Bateson, Mary Catherine (niece)
Organisaties
Look
Korte biografie
Leo Rosten was born in Łódź, Poland, and emigrated to the USA at age three, settling in Chicago. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1930 and earned a Ph.D. in 1937, followed by postgraduate study at the London School of Economics. During the Great Depression, he worked as a screenwriter and held a series of government information jobs during World War II. In 1949, he joined the staff of Look magazine, where he worked until 1971. As Leonard Q. Ross, he began his publishing career with the novel The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N (1937), based on his experiences teaching English to new immigrants. He edited a series of articles for Look that became the basis of A Guide to the Religions of America (1955) and The Story Behind the Painting (1962). Rosten enjoyed instant success with The Joys of Yiddish (1968), a comic lexicon that introduced millions of Americans to Yiddish words and idioms such as chutzpah and nosh that are now widely used. He followed it with The Joys of Yinglish (1989). He produced dozens of other works over more than 60 years of writing.

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Exhaustive collection of Jewish wisdom excellently organized alphabetically by topic from Ability to Zohar. Annotated with source and attribution of authors of quote. Sources include but not limited to Torah, Talmud, Midrash, Rabbis, Moses ben Maimon, Nachman of Bratslav, Shalom Aleichem...
Very well indexed with table of contents.
An anthology guaranteed to warm your heart, make you grin and nod your head in agreement.
 
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funniest dictionary ever
 
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Werken
46
Ook door
28
Leden
3,582
Populariteit
#7,075
Waardering
½ 3.7
Besprekingen
50
ISBNs
102
Talen
6
Favoriet
3

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