{"product_id":"9780061132179","title":"Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All Its Moods","description":"As the main spoken language of the Jews for more than a thousand years, Yiddish has had plenty to lament, plenty to conceal.  Its phrases and expressions paint a comprehensive picture of the mind-set that enabled the Jews of Europe to survive persecution: they never stopped kvetching about God, gentiles, children, and everything else.\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eborn to Kvetch\u003c\/i\u003e, Michael Wex looks at the ingredients that went into this buffet of  disenchantment and examines how they were mixed together to produce an almost limitless supply of striking idioms and withering curses.  \u003ci\u003eBorn to Kvetch\u003c\/i\u003eincludes a wealth of material that's never appeared in English before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the fascinating history of this kvetch-full tongue, Michael Wex gives us a moving and inspiring portrait of a people, and a language, in exile.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47063441735920,"sku":"9780061132179","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780061132179_p0.jpg?v=1763768108","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780061132179","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}