Words Like Arrows: A Collection of Yiddish Folk Sayings, Edited by Shirley Kumove Discount and confusion of assimilation

and confusion of assimilation

("an utter and total revelation")

He said the words "Irreconcilable differences

Filled with delightful anecdotes about how a ferociously hardworking family turned a passion for selling perfectly smoked and pickled fish into an institution with a devoted national clientele

Becoming Soviet Jews demonstrates that the often violent social changes enforced by the communist project did not destroy continuities with prerevolutionary forms of Jewish life in Minsk

Words Like Arrows: A Collection of Yiddish Folk Sayings, Edited by Shirley Kumove Discount and confusion of assimilationA beloved book newly reissued by Toronto University Press. 'A word and an arrow are the same both deliver with speedy aim.' From this saying comes the title of this entertaining collection of lively and engaging adages, bons mots, maxims, and proverbs an attractive sampling of the accumulated wisdom of the past. The timeless Yiddish sayings in this volume some 1800 of them paint a verbal picture of the long and varied experience Jewish life in Eastern