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Paperback $17.00
Jul 30, 2002 | ISBN 9780142000946
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“A meditation on how language defines not just the words we use but the places we come from.” —The New York Times Book Review
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Table Of Contents
1. México Lindo
2. The Rise and Fall of Yiddish
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