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| Getting to Know Yiddish | |
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| So What Do You Think, Yiddish Is Dead? | |
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| Those Were the Days, My Friend | |
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| The Three Giants of Yiddish Literature | |
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| Laughing Through Tears | |
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| Universal Yiddish | |
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| Richer Than Rothschild | |
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| The Play's the Thing | |
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| Oy Vey--Why Yiddish Almost Died | |
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| L'Chayim--To Life: The Modern Rebirth | |
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| The Top Ten Reasons to Learn Yiddish | |
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| So Where Does Yiddish Come From? | |
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| What's in a Name? | |
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| Yiddish Is Older Than You Think | |
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| Why Not Hebrew? | |
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| Mame-loshen--A Language Spoken by Mothers | |
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| What a Mishmash! | |
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| My Yiddish, Your Yiddish | |
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| I Don't Understand You | |
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| Hold the Back Page | |
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| So Who Says You Don't Know Yiddish Already? | |
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| Some of My Best Friends Are Yiddish | |
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| And Then There's Yinglish | |
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| And Don't Forget the Grammar | |
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| Almost Identical Twins | |
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| So How Come? | |
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| So Now You Can Kvel | |
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| So Let's Get Started Already | |
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| It's as Easy as ABC--That's Easy? | |
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| Try It with Honey | |
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| A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words | |
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| The Sound of Music | |
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| Show Me You're Finished | |
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| Here's How to Say It | |
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| Try Speaking a Bisel (Little) | |
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| The Basic Words | |
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| The Ten Most Popular Words in Yiddish | |
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| The Sexy Words | |
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| Asking Questions in Yiddish | |
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| Getting Personal in Yiddish | |
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| Here's Looking at You | |
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| Let's Be Objective | |
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| Short and Sweet | |
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| Time for Some Exercise | |
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| Meeting People and Making Friends | |
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| Saying Hello | |
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| Opening Questions | |
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| A Little More About "You" | |
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| Giving the Right Answers | |
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| Infinitives and Introductions | |
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| Did You Notice? | |
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| Be Polite | |
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| Asking a Question | |
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| Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow | |
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| The Days of Our Lives | |
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| Is It Shabes Yet? | |
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| The Months and the Seasons | |
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| Side By Side | |
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| An Ode to Potatoes | |
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| Units of Time | |
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| Timely Words and Expressions | |
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| Wise Idioms | |
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| So How Old Are You? | |
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| Combining Numbers | |
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| What Time Is It? | |
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| Home, Sweet Heym | |
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| All in the Family | |
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| The Mamas and the Papas | |
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| A Yiddish Mama | |
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| A Lid far der Mamen | |
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| Der Tate: The Father | |
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| The Members of the Wedding | |
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| It's a Zun | |
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| The Rest of the Mishpokhe | |
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| Welcoming the "Green" Cousin | |
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| So What Are They Like? | |
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| Time for Some Exercise | |
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| Turning Adjectives into People | |
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| Kum Areyn--Come in, Please | |
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| Such Nice Rooms! | |
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| Looking All Around You | |
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| Help Me Find It | |
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| When "Men" Are Not "Men" | |
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| Wear It in Good Health | |
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| Such Beautiful Colors | |
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| Try the House "Specials" | |
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| Baked Stuffed Gefilte Fish--a la Ita | |
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| Light-as-a-Feather Matza Balls | |
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| What's a Meal Without Cake? | |
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| Your Handy Cooking and Baking Guide | |
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| Let's Eat--Esen, Esen, Esen | |
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| Don't Forget Breakfast | |
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| When Do We Eat? | |
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| The I'll-Do-It-Now Words | |
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| The I'll-Do-It-Later Words | |
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| So What's for Dinner? | |
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| Start with an Appetizer | |
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| Jewish Penicillin | |
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| Ready for the Entree? | |
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| You're Entitled to Two Sides | |
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| A Little Dessert? | |
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| On the Town | |
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| How Should We Go? | |
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| Let's Take the Car | |
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| Travel Tips by Car | |
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| Oy Vey, I'm in Trouble | |
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| Better by Teksi | |
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| ... or Public Transportation | |
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| Did You Sing on the Trip? | |
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| Living in the Past | |
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| There's Always an Exception | |
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| A Table for Ten | |
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| Pick a Restaurant | |
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| Two Sets of Silverware | |
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| The Yiddish Pocahontas | |
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| Words to Remember | |
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| At the Restaurant | |
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| Constructive Criticism | |
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| L'Khayim | |
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| Let Me Entertain You | |
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| How About a Movie? | |
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| Let's Go to the Theater Instead | |
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| Agreeable Adjectives | |
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| Who Says It's Not Nice to Compare? | |
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| Where Else Can We Go? | |
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| Let's Have a Ball | |
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| Life's a Gamble | |
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| Other Diversions | |
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| Hooray, It's on Sale | |
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| Where Did You Buy It? | |
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| Look for a Metsiye | |
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| It's Time for a Makeover | |
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| A Sheyner Yid | |
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| Let's Go on Vacation | |
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| Tell Me, Where Shall I Go? | |
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| Getting There Is Half the Fun | |
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| Thank God, It's Past Tense | |
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| Going All the Way | |
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| Milk and Honey | |
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| Room and Board | |
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| The Air Raid Siren | |
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| That's Life | |
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| Don't Get Sick! | |
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| Discussing Body Parts | |
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| S'tut Vey--It Hurts | |
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| And That's the Truth | |
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| I'm Not a Hypochondriac | |
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| If You Don't Know, Ask | |
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| Gevalt! | |
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| Don't Make Me Younger | |
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| The Expensive Funeral | |
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| Get a Good Job | |
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| Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief? | |
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| What Should I Become? | |
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| So Many Choices | |
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| Call Me | |
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| Happiness Is | |
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| Show Me the Money | |
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| Lots and Lots | |
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| The -en Ending | |
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| Ten Dollars, Lots of Dollars | |
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| Move Your -s | |
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| To -er Is Human | |
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| Leave Me Alone | |
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| God Bless You | |
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| What Should We Call You, God? | |
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| Thou Shalt Not Take My Name in Vain | |
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| "Kosher" Nicknames | |
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| The Respectful Son-in-Law | |
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| God Talk | |
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| Spiritual Words | |
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| You Gotta Follow the Rules | |
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| Let's Be Definite | |
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| Being Accusative | |
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| Making a Dative | |
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| Please Cut It Short | |
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| The Ingenious Genitive | |
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| Learn to Be More Possessive | |
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| When Yiddish Is Hebrew | |
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| As Long as You're Well | |
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| The Popular, the Powerful, and the Profound | |
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| Comparisons, Curses, and Blessings | |
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| Biblical Similes | |
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| Descriptive Expressions | |
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| Rewarding the Philanthropist | |
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| It's Imperative | |
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| Put-Downs and Perfect Squelches | |
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| Curses for All Seasons | |
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| Blessings and Good Wishes | |
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| Morons and Misfits | |
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| Mentshen and Meyvinim | |
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| When the Saints Come Marching In | |
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| Meeting Mentshen | |
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| The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful | |
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| The Terrible "D" Word | |
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| Say It Ain't So | |
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| Yiddish Selections | |
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| The Wisdom of Proverbs | |
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| Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing | |
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| Es, Es--Eat, Eat | |
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| All in the Family | |
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| Good Advice | |
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| Friends and Enemies | |
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| Grow Old Along with Me | |
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| Thinking About It | |
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| "Velvel" Shakespeare--and Other Classics | |
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| Romeo, Shmoeo--What's in a Name? | |
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| Ham Is Bad, but Hamlet's Great | |
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| "Avrohom" Lincoln | |
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| The Gettysburg Address (Original Version) | |
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| And Now for the Yiddish | |
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| Some Phrases to Remember | |
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| The Ten Commandments | |
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| The First Commandment | |
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| The Second Commandment | |
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| The Third Commandment | |
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| The Fourth Commandment | |
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| The Fifth Commandment | |
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| The Sixth Commandment | |
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| The Seventh Commandment | |
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| The Eighth Commandment | |
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| The Ninth Commandment | |
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| The Tenth Commandment | |
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| Exercising Your Mind | |
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| From Shakespeare | |
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| From Abraham Lincoln | |
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| From God | |
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| Pop Culture in Yiddish Clothing | |
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| The Top Ten Movie Quotes | |
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| Slogans and Famous Sayings | |
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| Guess Who Said It? | |
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| The Envelope, Please | |
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| What Did They Say? | |
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| The Man and the Message | |
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| Take Note of These | |
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| Voices of the Masters | |
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| Hello, Sholom Aleichem | |
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| The Treasure | |
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| Try This Test | |
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| The Popular Peretz | |
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| The Head or the Heart? | |
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| Introducing the Cast | |
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| How High Is High? | |
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| Fill in the Missing Word | |
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| A Nobel Singer | |
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| The Washer Woman | |
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| Try to Write Like a Singer | |
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| With a Song in My Heart | |
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| Out of the Depths of Despair | |
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| Song of the Partisans | |
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| Now That's Funny | |
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| The Punch Line Is Yiddish | |
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| Say It Again, Sarah | |
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| The First Jewish President | |
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| The Yid-English Dictionary | |
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| Yiddish Types | |
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| Oy, Vey, the Rabbi | |
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| Listen to Your Rabbi | |
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| Some Words to Remember | |
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| Fill in the Missing Word | |
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| Only in America | |
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| Can You Figure It Out? | |
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| You Figure Out the Punch Line | |
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| The Jewish Atheist | |
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| How Moses Won | |
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| Taking No Chances | |
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| Getting the Last Laugh | |
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| Why Always Jews? | |
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| A Little Exercise Wouldn't Hurt You | |
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| It Sounds Just Like It (Chapter 3) | |
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| That's a Good Idea (Chapter 4) | |
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| I Do Declare (Chapter 5) | |
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| Let's Have Sex Again (Chapter 5) | |
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| Living in the Present (Chapter 5) | |
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| Objectively Speaking (Chapter 5) | |
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| I Can't Live Without You (Chapter 5) | |
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| Meet and Greet (Chapter 6) | |
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| Infinitives Aren't Infinite (Chapter 6) | |
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| Got the Time? (Chapter 7) | |
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| Countdown (Chapter 7) | |
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| You Can't Choose Your Relatives (Chapter 8) | |
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| Clothes Make the Man and Woman (Chapter 9) | |
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| A Rainbow Coalition (Chapter 9) | |
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| Coming Right Up (Chapter 10) | |
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| I'll Get to It (Chapter 10) | |
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| What's the Problem? (Chapter 11) | |
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| What's Past Is Past (Chapter 11) | |
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| Let's Compare (Chapter 13) | |
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| You'll Find It At ... (Chapter 13) | |
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| What Hurts? (Chapter 15) | |
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| So What Do You Do for a Living? (Chapter 16) | |
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| Tell Me More (Chapter 16) | |
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| Wise as King Solomon (Chapter 22) | |
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| Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Take Me to the Movies | |
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| Music to My Ears | |
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| Answer Key | |
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| Index | |