Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular & the New Land

A "fascinating and enlightening" collection of comics and writings that explore the Yiddish language and the Jewish experience (The Miami Herald).
We hear words like nosh, schlep, and schmutz, but how did they come to pepper American English? In Yiddishkeit, Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle trace the far-reaching influences of Yiddish from medieval Europe to the tenements of New York's Lower East Side. This comics anthology contains original stories by such notable writers and artists as Barry D...