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Leo Rosten (1907–1997)

Forfatter af The Joys of Yiddish

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He was the author of The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*P*L*A*N, Captain Newman, M.D., and countless other books, articles, and screenplays. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Værker af Leo Rosten

The Joys of Yiddish (1970) 964 eksemplarer
Religions of America (1963) 471 eksemplarer
The Education of Hyman Kaplan (1937) 372 eksemplarer
Hooray for Yiddish (1982) 282 eksemplarer
The Return of Hyman Kaplan (1959) 134 eksemplarer
The Joys of Yinglish (1989) 130 eksemplarer
Captain Newman, M.D. (1961) 79 eksemplarer
O Kaplan! My Kaplan! (1976) 63 eksemplarer
Look Book (1962) 36 eksemplarer
A Most Private Intrigue (1967) 29 eksemplarer
The Story Behind the Painting (1962) 21 eksemplarer
THE MANY WORLDS OF LEO ROSTEN (1962) 15 eksemplarer
King Silky! (1980) 13 eksemplarer
The 3:10 to anywhere (1976) 12 eksemplarer
Silky (1979) 10 eksemplarer
Infinite Riches (1979) 8 eksemplarer
The Power of Positive Nonsense (1977) 6 eksemplarer
A Trumpet for Reason (1970) 6 eksemplarer
The Washington Correspondents (1974) 3 eksemplarer
The Strangest Places 2 eksemplarer
oy oy oy! 1 eksemplar
The Bathroom Reader 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

The Best of Modern Humor (1983) — Bidragyder — 292 eksemplarer
A Subtreasury of American Humor (1941) — Bidragyder — 276 eksemplarer
Russell Baker's Book of American Humor (1993) — Bidragyder — 207 eksemplarer
The Best American Humorous Short Stories (1945) — Bidragyder — 82 eksemplarer
A Golden Treasure of Jewish Literature (1937) — Bidragyder — 75 eksemplarer
A Literary Christmas: Great Contemporary Christmas Stories (1992) — Bidragyder — 70 eksemplarer
American Christmas Stories (2021) — Bidragyder — 59 eksemplarer
Desert Island Decameron (1945) — Bidragyder — 57 eksemplarer
The Bedside Tales: A Gay Collection (1945) — Bidragyder — 45 eksemplarer
Modern Jewish stories (1963) — Bidragyder — 36 eksemplarer
The Dark Corner [1946 film] (1946) 26 eksemplarer
Chucklebait (1945) — Bidragyder — 14 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1959 (1959) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
American Men at Arms (1964) — Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer
World's Great Humorous Stories (1944) — Bidragyder — 9 eksemplarer
Our lives : American labor stories — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Bidragyder; Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 8, April 1974 (1974) — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
15 Stories: An Anthology for Secondary Schools (1960) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Americans All: Stories of American Life To-Day (1971) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
The Narrative Impulse: Short Stories for Analysis (1963) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar

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Kanonisk navn
Rosten, Leo
Juridisk navn
Rosten, Leo Calvin
Andre navne
Ross, Leonard Q.
Fødselsdato
1907-04-11
Dødsdag
1997-02-19
Køn
male
Nationalitet
Russian Empire (birth)
USA
Fødested
Lodz, Poland
Dødssted
New York, New York, USA
Bopæl
Lodz, Russian Empire (now Poland)
New York, New York, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Uddannelse
University of Chicago
London School of Economics
Erhverv
teacher
screenwriter
lexicographer
novelist
humorist
journalist
Relationer
Rosten, Carrie (granddaughter)
Mead, Margaret (sister-in-law)
Steig, William (brother-in-law)
Bateson, Mary Catherine (niece)
Organisationer
Look
Kort biografi
Leo Rosten was born in Łódź, Poland, and emigrated to the USA at age three, settling in Chicago. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1930 and earned a Ph.D. in 1937, followed by postgraduate study at the London School of Economics. During the Great Depression, he worked as a screenwriter and held a series of government information jobs during World War II. In 1949, he joined the staff of Look magazine, where he worked until 1971. As Leonard Q. Ross, he began his publishing career with the novel The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N (1937), based on his experiences teaching English to new immigrants. He edited a series of articles for Look that became the basis of A Guide to the Religions of America (1955) and The Story Behind the Painting (1962). Rosten enjoyed instant success with The Joys of Yiddish (1968), a comic lexicon that introduced millions of Americans to Yiddish words and idioms such as chutzpah and nosh that are now widely used. He followed it with The Joys of Yinglish (1989). He produced dozens of other works over more than 60 years of writing.

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Popularitet
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Vurdering
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ISBN
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