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Words Like Arrows: A Collection of Yiddish Folk Sayings

Words Like Arrows: A Collection of Yiddish Folk Sayings

Kumove, Shirley
Newfeld, Frank

Paperback

Series: Heritage

Literary CriticismJudaismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 148757231X
ISBN13: 9781487572310
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 15 1984
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

'A word and an arrow are the same -- both deliver with speedy aim.' From this saying comes the title of this entertaining collection of lively and engaging adages, bons mots, maxims, and proverbs -- an attractive sampling of the accumulated wisdom of the past.


The timeless Yiddish sayings in this volume -- some 1800 of them -- paint a verbal picture of the long and varied experience Jewish life in Eastern Europe and later in immigrant North America. They reflect religious, moral, and political concerns as well as the daily struggle for survival. They range from statements of the obvious to profound commentaries on subjects as varied as arranging a marriage, bearing and raising children, education them, earning a living, growing old, and dying.

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