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Leo Calvin Rosten (Yiddish: ליאָ קאַלװין ראָסטען ; April 11, 1908 – February 19, 1997) was an American writer and humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism, and Yiddish lexicography.
22. Apr. 2024 · Leo Rosten (born April 11, 1908, Łódź, Pol.—died Feb. 19, 1997, New York, N.Y.) was a Polish-born American author and social scientist best known for his popular books on Yiddish and for his comic novels featuring the immigrant night-school student Hyman Kaplan.
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20. Feb. 1997 · Leo Rosten, the writer, scholar and language maven who introduced millions of Americans to the deep lexical pleasures of chutzpah and shlemiel and kibitz and nosh, died yesterday at his home in...
Leo Rosten wurde 1908 in Lodz geboren. Aufgewachsen ist er in einem Arbeiterviertel Chicagos. Seine ›Hyman Kaplan‹-Romane beruhen auf Personen aus dieser Umgebung. Sein Humor, der mit Scholem Alejchem und Mark Twain verglichen wird, machte ihn bald populär, aber keines seiner Bücher hatte eine so nachhaltige Wirkung wie die ›Joys of ...
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Leo Calvin Rosten, author and social scientist: born Ldz, Poland 11 April 1908; married 1935 Priscilla Mead (deceased; one son, two daughters), 1960 Gertrude Zimmerman; died 19 February 1997.
The Joys of Yiddish is a book containing a lexicon of common words and phrases of Yinglish —i.e., words originating in the Yiddish language that had become known to speakers of American English due to the influence of American Ashkenazi Jews. It was originally published in 1968 and written by Leo Rosten.
4. Jan. 1998 · What Leo Rosten accomplished was to make the world of our mothers and fathers accessible not only to us but also to others.
