“The Joys of Yiddish” is hitting bookstands in Germany, five years after the death of its author, Leo Rosten. The book, being published under the title “Yiddish, A Small Encyclopedia,” is likely to find an audience among the large number of non-Jewish Germans seeking to learn the language of the destroyed Jewish communities of Eastern Europe.
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