Book title: Yiddish with Dick and Jane. The cover is bright yellow. In the center, a boy and a girl play with a dreidel while a small dog joins them. A bright red banner stretches across the lower middle of the cover, holding the title in white lettering.

Yiddish with Dick and Jane

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Book title: Yiddish with Dick and Jane. The cover is bright yellow. In the center, a boy and a girl play with a dreidel while a small dog joins them. A bright red banner stretches across the lower middle of the cover, holding the title in white lettering.
  • Book title: Yiddish with Dick and Jane. The cover is bright yellow. In the center, a boy and a girl play with a dreidel while a small dog joins them. A bright red banner stretches across the lower middle of the cover, holding the title in white lettering.
  • Book title: Yiddish with Dick and Jane. The cover is bright yellow. In the center, a boy and a girl play with a dreidel while a small dog joins them. A bright red banner stretches across the lower middle of the cover, holding the title in white lettering.
Yiddish with Dick and Jane

Yiddish with Dick and Jane

$13.80
$13.80 $20.00

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 Dick and Jane — hero and heroine of the classic books for children that generations of Americans 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.

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