THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
48—Friday, April 12, 1968
By JESS SILVER
Martin Marcus' Yiddish for Yankees':
OK for Mimicry, Not for Accuracy
(Copyright 1968, JTA Inc.)
A Chicago advertising man, providing pleasurable acquaint-
Martin Marcus, has hit upon an ance with the Yiddish language.
interesting way of proving that It won't suit the Yiddish intellec-
Yiddish isn't dead. He has selected tual and the scholar who has
the most popular — in the sense mastered the language. But it will
of the most often — used Yid- create curiosity.
dish words and has produced a
For instance, a "Goniff" is "a
book he calls "Yiddish for Yank- crook by birth—The neighbor who
ees, or, Funny, You Don't Look steals your parking place." "Gaz-
Gentile."
lan (gabs lun)" is "your most
This little volume (published by foolish of all the fools." "Bullvant
J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia), (bull vahnt)" is explained as "a
is a sort of dictionary, containing man with the build of an ox."
many words and phrases, intended
There are such terms as "fi-
to teach Yiddish and to guide the zehnish `fih zay nish)" which is
reader along a path of entertain- defined as "a monster, an ugly
ment as well as teaching. It has individual" and many other simi-
many definitions that are aimed at lar terms are mistransliterated,
offered funny explanations, intro-
duced for entertainment more than
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for knowledge.
It can be said about this little
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book that it is "clever" and de-
. notes ingenuity. But cleverness and
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to Vershtoonkene" will have good
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Alabama. Florida ended the sea-
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Vanderbilt's coach said: "He's
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Invited to participate in the
Olympic trials, Walk, a business
major, reluctantly declined. "One
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progress toward a degree."
Dave Newmark of Columbia
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Brandeis, under new coach K. C.
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