Yiddish & English: The Story of Yiddish in America Yiddish & English by Sol Steinmetz Dictionaries Anne is adrift

Anne is adrift

Tova Mirvis

and―with the help of fellow journalist Parvaneh Vahidmanesh―documenting how they lived

” — Tablet Magazine

and the role that faith plays in our lives

Yiddish & English: The Story of Yiddish in America Yiddish & English by Sol Steinmetz Dictionaries Anne is adriftThis is the only book to seriously treat the intriguing linguistic and cultural phenomenon of the intimate contact between Yiddish and English over the past 120 years. Yiddish arrived in America as the mother tongue of millions of Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe. Not only did this language without a homeland survive in the great American melting pot, it infiltrated the majority language, English, with a wide variety of new words and expressions