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Feb 19, 1997 · Leo Rosten. Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them. Leo Rosten. Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. Leo Rosten. I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe. Leo Rosten. A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. Leo Rosten.
Leo Rosten. (1908–97). The Polish-born U.S. author and social scientist Leo Rosten is best known for his popular books on Yiddish and for his comic novels featuring the immigrant night-school student Hyman Kaplan. Rosten sometimes wrote under the name Leonard Q. Ross. Leo Calvin Rosten was born on April 11, 1908, in Łódź, Poland.
Apr 14, 2010 · The late LEO ROSTEN was the author of The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, Captain Newman, M.D., and countless other books, articles, and screenplays. LAWRENCE BUSH is the author of several books about American Judaism and is the editor of Reconstructionism Today .
Leo Calvin Rosten was born in Lodz, Russian Empire (now Poland) and died in New York City. He was a teacher and academic, but is best known as a humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism and Yiddish lexicography.
The Education of Hyman Kaplan (Prion Humour Classics S.) Leo Rosten's Carnival of Wit: And Wisdom : Plus Wisecracks, Ad-Libs, Malaprops, Puns, One-Liners, Quips, Epigrams, Boo-Boos, Dazzling Ironies, and Wizardries of Wording, Plus. The Dark Corner / Sleep, My Love. The Return of Hyman Kaplan (Prion Humour Classics S.) The Joys of Yiddish.
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The Joys of Yiddish Mass Market Paperback – 24 Nov. 1983. The Joys of Yiddish. Mass Market Paperback – 24 Nov. 1983. by Leo Rosten (Author) 4.5 130 ratings. See all formats and editions. Report an issue with this product. Print length. 592 pages.
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Rosten’s career as a humorist was long, though, and three decades before Joys he published, under the pseudonym Leonard Q. Ross, The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, a collection of episodes culled from the pages of the New Yorker that could have been subtitled The Oy-oy-oys of Yiddish Speakers. The stories take place at the American Night ...
