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| Yiddish with George and Laura | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ellis Weiner, Barbara Davilman
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 818601
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Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5 x 0.5
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.9310922
ASIN: B0015UXNS0
Publication Date: October 10, 2006
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Product Description
In this inspired follow-up to the bestselling Yiddish withDick and Jane, Yiddish--the mother tongue of irony--invades the ultimatebastion of American WASP culture: Kennebunkport, home of the Bush clan. What do George and Laura Bush have in common with Dick and Jane? Well, bothhail from prototypical WASP families. And, perhaps more to the point, bothexhibit a natural resistance to moral complexity (i.e., reality). That's the premise of this hilarious new primer-style book in which George,Laura, and the entire Bush family communicate with uncharacteristicexpressiveness, conveying shades of feeling and nuances of meaning thatplain old English can't deliver--by peppering their conversation withYiddishisms. See George's mother. Her name is Bar. She wears alot of pearls and is a farbisseneh. "You are late, George," Bar says. "Of course I am late," George says. "I am the President of the United States. I am a big macher." Like all good primers, YIDDISH WITH GEORGE AND LAURA tells a simplestory--and, in the end, important life lessons are imparted.
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 This book reveals more about the authors than the subject June 16, 2008
This mean-spirited piece of garbage says more about the writers than it's subject, the Bush family. A nasty case of projection it looks to me. Shame on them and shame on the noodnicks that wasted their money on this low crap.
 HILARIOUS May 23, 2008
We read this book aloud to each other, pausing at every Yiddish word to read the extremely funny glossary definition. We actually howled out loud with laughter....and then immediately ordered copies for family and friends. Truly delightful!
 Sequel not as good as original--trying too hard April 29, 2008
Yiddish With Dick and Jane had me laughing out loud all throughout, but this one just didn't do it for me. Somehow it was funny when they threw Yiddish into the Dick and Jane world, but I don't think it worked as well when they tried for a sequel in the political world. I mean there are many other reviewers who got some laughs out of it, which is great, but I thought this one was kind of awkward and grasping. Yiddish and the Bushes didn't really gel this time, in my view. The glossary uses all the terms in silly attempts at political jokes. At the end there is a somewhat lengthy explanation of why the book is supposed to be funny. I wanted this book to be good and to live up to Y w/D & J, but I was disappointed. I gave it a couple points because it had a few terms I didn't already know, but some of the phrases were long and looked particularly strange when put into the mouths of the Bushes.
Brilliant and hysterical! November 13, 2007
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Jewish Democrats will love this book. I've been giving copies of Yiddish with Dick and Jane as Bar and Bat Mitzvah presents for years to great acclaim and this one is that much funnier.
great book October 10, 2007
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this book was written very well. it was just as if george and laura were realy dick and jane. the parts with the yiddish was very appropriate. i loved it.
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