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Leo Calvin Rosten (Yiddish: ליאָ קאַלװין ראָסטען ; April 11, 1908 – February 19, 1997) was an American writer and humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism, and Yiddish lexicography.
Leo Rosten (born April 11, 1908, Łódź, Pol.—died Feb. 19, 1997, New York, N.Y.) was a Polish-born American author and social scientist best known for his popular books on Yiddish and for his comic novels featuring the immigrant night-school student Hyman Kaplan.
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Feb 20, 1997 · Leo Rosten, the writer, scholar and language maven who introduced millions of Americans to the deep lexical pleasures of chutzpah and shlemiel and kibitz and nosh, died yesterday at his...
Feb 19, 1997 · Leo Calvin Rosten was born in Lodz, Russian Empire (now Poland) and died in New York City. He was a teacher and academic, but is best known as a humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism and Yiddish lexicography.
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May 10, 2024 · Leo Rosten, whose best-selling "The Joys of Yiddish," introduced non-Jewish America to another culture, died Wednesday at 88. Rosten wrote dozens of works of fiction and nonfiction in a...
Jun 5, 1997 · Leo Rosten was a prolific author who translated his mamaloshen into English and popularized Yiddish words and culture in America. He wrote fiction, non-fiction and humor books, including "The Joys of Yiddish" and the Hyman Kaplan series.
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Apr 14, 2010 · More than a quarter of a century ago, Leo Rosten published the first comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of...
