Download or read book Oy Vey The Things They Say written by Ariel Books and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to generate impulse sales, titles in this line are carefully balanced for gift giving, self-purchase, or collecting. Little Books may be small in size, but they're big in titles and sales.
Download or read book Oy Vey Isn t a Strategy written by Deborah Grayson Riegel and published by Behrman House Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 25 simple strategies to help YOU achieve personal and professional success Ever wish you had a life coach in your pocket? Now you do! Discover how to improve your interpersonal relationships, find happiness at work, overcome procrastination and perfectionism, and present your ideas with polish and passion. This book will help you adjust your perspective-with good humor, practical insights, and a little wisdom from the Jewish tradition-to get you moving in the right direction. Internationally renowned coach, acclaimed speaker, and syndicated columnist Deborah Grayson Riegel trains executives, senior managers, and professionals at the world's most recognized companies and organizations, including American Express, Condé Nast, Jewish Federations of North America, Pfizer, Toyota, and the US Army. Book jacket.
Download or read book Oy Vey More written by David Minkoff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always remember the two rules of life: RULE #1: Never forget how to laugh RULE #2: Never forget Rule #1 From romance to rabbis, from housework to hearing, with Oy Vey: More! The Ultimate Book of Jewish Jokes Part Two, David Minkoff takes us on a hilarious, sideways look at Jewish life and culture. Picking up where off the first volume left off, this laugh packed sequel includes over 800 meandering stories, riddles, one-liners, and even a glossary of Yiddish terms for the uninitiated, so goys, no problem, you don't have to be Jewish to enjoy. With chapters on birth, death, matters of faith, people and professions, medicine, romance, families and more, all aspects of everyday life are covered. From marriage brokers (shadchen) to bar mitzvahs, from schmucks to gossips (yentas), Oy Vey: More! features a recognizable character on every page, including a special child-friendly section and a humor test for couples. Contemporary and traditional by turns, from young people, to couples and grandparents, this compendium of Hebrew hilarity is great fun for the whole family to enjoy.
Download or read book Born to Kvetch LP written by Michael Wex and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-11-20 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful excursion through the Yiddish language, the culture it defines and serves, and the fine art of complaint Throughout history, Jews around the world have had plenty of reasons to lament. And for a thousand years, they've had the perfect language for it. Rich in color, expressiveness, and complexity, Yiddish has proven incredibly useful and durable. Its wonderful phrases and idioms impeccably reflect the mind-set that has enabled the Jews of Europe to survive a millennium of unrelenting persecution . . . and enables them to kvetch about it! Michael Wex—professor, scholar, translator, novelist, and performer—takes a serious yet unceasingly fun and funny look at this remarkable kvetch-full tongue that has both shaped and has been shaped by those who speak it. Featuring chapters on curse words, food, sex, and even death, he allows his lively wit and scholarship to roam freely from Sholem Aleichem to Chaucer to Elvis. Perhaps only a khokhem be-layle (a fool, literally a "sage at night," when there's no one around to see) would care to pass up this endearing and enriching treasure trove of linguistics, sociology, history, and folklore—an intriguing appreciation of a unique and enduring language and an equally fascinating culture.
Download or read book Siegel and Shuster s Funnyman written by Thomas Andrae and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a kaleidoscopic analysis of Jewish humor as seen through Funnyman, a little-known super-heroic invention by the creators of Superman. Included are complete comic-book stories and daily and Sunday newspaper panels from Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s creative fiasco. Siegel and Shuster, two Jewish teenagers from Cleveland, sold the rights to their amazing and astonishingly lucrative comic book superhero to Detective Comics for $130 in 1938. Not only did they lose the ownership of the Superman character, they also agreed to write and illustrate it for ten years at ten dollars per page. Their contract with the DC publishers was soon heralded as the most foolish agreement in the history of American popular culture. After toiling on workman’s wages for a decade, Siegel and Shuster struggled to come up with a new superhero, one that would right their wrongs and prove that justice, fair-play, and zany craftsmanship was the true American way and would lead to ultimate victory. But when the naïve duo launched their new comic character Funnyman in 1947, it failed miserably. All the turmoil and personal disasters in Siegel and Shuster’s postwar life percolated into the comic strip. This book tells the back story of the unsuccessful strip and Siegel and Shuster’s ambition to have their funny Jewish superhero trump Superman. Mel Gordon is the author of Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin. Thomas Andrae is the author of Batman and Me.
Download or read book Oy Vey Such a Deal written by Gerrie Hyman Mills and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Gerrie Hyman Mills takes you on a rich and colorful journey-from her childhood and Jewish family roots, into adulthood, with marriage to Clyde Mills and the miraculous events that moved them, against all odds, into full-time Christian church ministry. You'll laugh-when Pastor Clyde, at the carnival church event, mis-guesses a woman's weight by "more than fifty pounds." You'll cry tears of joy-as Gerrie shares the moving story of Ike, the hippie, whose family had abandoned him when he was a kid, and how Ike miraculously found Jesus and the love of a new church family. You'll be amazed-at God's providing basic daily needs, with Gerrie's account of their visiting neighbor who tucked some "cold cash" into the egg carton of their refrigerator, just the right amount to provide for their kids' dental needs. Be blessed in your own journey of faith-discovering through Gerrie's journey a God who loves you, provides for you exceedingly abundantly, and who offers you eternal life. Or in Gerrie's own words-Oy Vey! Such a Deal! Book jacket.
Download or read book Oy Vey Life in a Shoe written by Bonnie Grubman and published by Apples & Honey Press. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A retelling of a classic Jewish Folktale paired with the old woman in a shoe. The tale reminds us that sometimes things have to go from bad to worse before they can get better"--
Download or read book The Starr Report Disrobed written by Fedwa Malti-Douglas and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What is this strange book" asks Fedwa Malti-Douglas, "that can bring the American presidency to its knees?" In this probing study of Kenneth W. Starr's influential and historic work, she reveals how The Starr Report exposed the cultural tendencies, desires, and taboos of Americans while it disrobed the most powerful man in the world. Unveiling the political and ideological implications of the report's relentless pursuit of corporeal and prurient detail, Malti-Douglas underscores the document's ground-breaking nature—both for its legal and cultural content. What does the report imply about American values when it repeatedly points to the dates on which trysts occurred? Why does gender seem so unstable in the report? And how do such varied objects as Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass or Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon or a Hugo Boss tie or Vox, a novel about phone sex, fit into the legal discourse of the report? Fraught with assumptions about gender and sexuality, the report reflects a strategy to use Clinton's "body natural" to undermine his "body politic."
Download or read book Old Jewish Folk Music written by Mark Slobin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original publications of the 1930s are scarcely to be found. The posthumous 1962 volume in the Soviet Union was limited to a tiny edition. Yet the work of the man who has been called "the foremost authority on Jewish folk music before the Holocaust," Moshe Beregovski, survives and is now available for the first time to the English-speaking world. As a member of the Jewish community as well as an ethnomusicologist in prewar Russia, Beregovski had not only the inspiration to preserve the spirit and vitality of the music that filled the lives of his people but also the professional training to document his findings to exacting standards. The first section of SIobin's book contains translations of some of Beregovski's responses to Jewish folk music in its living context during the 1930s. He raises important questions about ethnicity in his essay on interaction between Ukrainian and Jewish musical influences. His work on klezmer music. the music of the Jewish folk instrumental bands, is the most authoritative on the subject and includes his complete guide to fieldworkers in folk music. In another essay Beregovski analyzes an unmistakable trademark of Jewish folk music, the "altered Dorian" scale, and its symbolism in Eastern European Jewish culture. The second section constitutes Beregovski's anthologies of hundreds of folk songs with full Yiddish and English song texts. Each song is carefully notated exactly as it was sung and is accompanied by Beregovski's notes on origins and variants. Beregovski's essays and transcriptions form a pat and a symbol of what was lost in the mass destruction of Eastern European Jewish culture in this century. They form a cultural record of deep significance not only for the Jewish people, but also for folklorists and scholars as evidence of a distinctive music culture that interacted with—and influenced—the folk musics of Eastern Europe.
Download or read book What Jefferson Read Ike Watched and Obama Tweeted written by Tevi Troy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Cicero to Snooki, the cultural influences on our American presidents are powerful and plentiful. Thomas Jefferson famously said "I cannot live without books," and his library backed up the claim, later becoming the backbone of the new Library of Congress. Jimmy Carter watched hundreds of movies in his White House, while Ronald Reagan starred in a few in his own time. Lincoln was a theater-goer, while Obama kicked back at home to a few episodes of HBO's "The Wire." America is a country built by thinkers on a foundation of ideas. Alongside classic works of philosophy and ethics, however, our presidents have been influenced by the books, movies, TV shows, viral videos, and social media sensations of their day. In What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted: 200 Years of Popular Culturen in the White House presidential scholar and former White House aide Tevi Troy combines research with witty observation to tell the story of how our presidents have been shaped by popular culture.
Download or read book Siegel and Shuster s Funnyman written by Mel Gordon and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created two superheroes. One is Superman. The other is Funnyman, and this book details his amazing back story. Inside find reproductions from Funnyman, s rare comic books, Sunday funnies and daily strips. Revealed by au..
Download or read book The Unblemished Trilogy written by Sara Ella and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three complete YA fantasy stories from award-winning author Sara Ella—now available in one low-price e-collection! “A breathtaking fantasy set in an extraordinary fairy-tale world, with deceptive twists and an addictively adorable cast who are illusory to the end.” —Mary Weber, award-winning author of the Storm Siren Trilogy and To Best the Boys Unblemished Eliyana can’t bear to look at her own reflection. With a birthmark covering half her face, she just hopes to graduate high school unscathed. But what if this is only one Reflection—one world? What if another world exists where her blemish could become her strength? When Eliyana’s mother doesn’t come home one night, things start to get weird. Why is her swoony next-door neighbor now her legal guardian? Add a hooded stalker and a Central Park battle—yes, battle—to the mix and you’ve gone from weird to otherworldly. Eliyana soon finds herself in a world much larger and more complicated than she’s ever known. A world enslaved by a powerful and vile man. And she holds the key to defeating him. Unraveling What happens when happily ever after starts to unravel? Eliyana Ember doesn’t believe in true love. Not anymore. After defeating her grandfather and saving the Second Reflection, El only trusts what’s right in front of her. The tangible. The real. Not some unexplained Kiss of Infinity she once shared with the ghost of a boy she’s trying to forget. Unbreakable With the fate of the Reflections at stake, Eliyana must destroy the Void . . . but at what cost? Eliyana Ember is a reluctant queen. As vessel of the Verity, only she can lead the fight against the wicked magnetism of the Void. If she fails, the paths between Reflections will cease to exist, and those she loves will remain plagued by darkness. Praise for The Unblemished Trilogy: “Unblemished may have set the stage, but Unraveling will forever bind you to this story like a Kiss of Accord. Sara Ella’s exquisite writing left me gasping at new revelations and re-reading whole chapters just because. Unraveling is a sequel that outshines its already brilliant predecessor.” —Nadine Brandes, award-winning author of Fawkes “Lyrically written and achingly romantic—Unblemished will tug your heartstrings!” —Melissa Landers, author of Alienated, Invaded, and Starflight “Self-worth and destiny collide in this twisty-turny fantasy full of surprise and heart. With charm and wit, Sara Ella delivers Unblemished, a magical story with a compelling message and a unique take on the perils of Central Park.” —Shannon Dittemore, author of the Angel Eyes trilogy “Unblemished is an enchanting, beautifully written adventure with a pitch-perfect blend of fantasy, realism, and romance.” —Lorie Langdon, author of the bestselling Doon series “Unblemished had me from the first chapter—mystery, romance, and mind-blowing twists and turns that I SO did not see coming! The worlds Sara Ella builds are complex and seamless; the characters she creates are beautifully flawed.” —Krista McGee, author of the Anomaly trilogy
Download or read book Beyond Blonde written by Teresa Toten and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Beyond Blonde, Sophie’s world has exploded. Papa has left to try and get sober, and her first love, Luke, has left to marry the mother of his baby. Mama is functioning on auto-pilot, and even Sophie’s refuge in basketball is threatened, since the new assistant coach, David Wayne, seems to hate the sight of her. Life is further complicated by her sixteen-year-old body betraying her at every turn. Into this confusing breach step Sophie’s brilliant Blondes and the ever-audacious Aunties, helping her to battle back with heart and humour.
Download or read book Holocaust Girls written by Sandi L. Wisenberg and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers essays on being a Jewish woman in the post-Holocaust world, including a comparison of Monica Lewinsky and Holocaust martyr Hannah Senesh.
Download or read book Midnight s Ghost Riders The Lamb Returns Armageddon written by D.M. Gregg and published by Yorkshire Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midnight’s Ghost Riders –‘I Am’ the Word – with the fate of mankind still hanging in the balance, the unlikely band of heroes embark on a mission to try and rescue little Zack. Will the Ghost Riders be able to save him from the fallen angel? What about Zorah? Has his hidden identity fi nally been revealed? What lies ahead for the young boy as he grows into a man? Find out in this final sequel, Midnight’s Ghost Riders – ‘The Lamb Returns’ – Armageddon and follow the adventures of the trio to proclaim to mankind, either change your evil ways or be doomed forevermore upon the return of ‘The Lamb-Yeshua.’ Will Zorah succeed this time with his New World Order? Find six jingles (song titles) in this sci-fi thriller starting with the title of this book. Perfect for lovers of fantasy. The twists and turns never stop and the end is never the end. Have you decided where you’re going to spend your eternity?
Download or read book Yiddish for Babies written by Janet Perr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "Yiddish for Dogs" comes this eye-catching visual dictionary. With its charming photography, "Yiddish for Babies" will leave readers "ferklempt."
Download or read book The Madera Dialogue written by David Meckler and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-06-19 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the meaning of this thing we call life? Why do we believe what we do? If there are an infinite number of answers to these questions, we've decided to include just a few of our own.
