Michael Wex – Born to Kvetch. Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods

As the main spoken language of the Jews for more than a thousand years, Yiddish has had plenty to lament, plenty to conceal. Through the idioms, phrases, metaphors, and fascinating history of this „kvetch-full tongue,” Wex provides a moving and inspiring portrait of a people, and a language, in exile.