Words Like Arrows: A Collection of Yiddish Folk Sayings, Edited by Shirley Kumove New Year and its spirited revitalization

and its spirited revitalization

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Words Like Arrows: A Collection of Yiddish Folk Sayings, Edited by Shirley Kumove New Year and its spirited revitalizationA 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