# Yiddish With Dick And Jane

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- Book: [Yiddish With Dick And Jane](https://www.bookquiver.com/barbara-davilman/yiddish-with-dick-and-jane) ([Yiddish With Dick And Jane.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/barbara-davilman/yiddish-with-dick-and-jane.md))
- Authors: [Barbara Davilman](https://www.bookquiver.com/barbara-davilman), [Ellis Weiner](https://www.bookquiver.com/ellis-weiner)
- Publisher: little_brown_us
- ISBN: 978-03-1615-972-2
- Published: 2006-03-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

In text that captures the unique rhythms of the original Dick and Jane readers, and in 35 all-new illustrations, a story unfolds in which the ultra-WASPish Dick and Jane - hero and heroine of the classic books for children that generations have used when learning to read - manage to express shades of feeling and nuances of meaning that ordinary English just can't deliver. How? By speaking Yiddish, employing terms that convey an attitude - part plucky self-assertion, part ironic fatalism. When Dick schmoozes, when Jane kvetches, when their children fress noodles at a Chinese restaurant, the clash of cultures produces genuine hilarity... YIDDISH WITH DICK AND JANE tells a simple story: Grandma gets sick and Dick and Jane's sister Sally visits. There are sub-plots about such ethical dilemmas as gift-giving etiquette and marital infidelity. The comedy intensifies in the glossary, which defines (with chutzpah aplenty!) each Yiddish term introduced in the text.