Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.9310922
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Little, Brown and Company
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: October 10, 2006
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Sales Rank: 202256
Studio: Little, Brown and Company
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Product Description:
What do George and Laura Bush have in common with Dick and Jane? Well, both hail from prototypical WASP families. And, perhaps more to the point, both exhibit a natural resistance to moral complexity (i.e., reality).
That's the premise of this hilarious new primer-style book in which George, Laura, and the entire Bush family communicate with uncharacteristic expressiveness, conveying shades of of feeling and nuances of meaning that plain old English can't deliver--by peppering their conversatuon with Yiddishisms.
See George's mother.
Her name is Bar.
She wears a lot of pearls and is a farbisseneh.
'You are late, George,' Bar says.
'Of course I am late,' George says.
'I am the President of the United States.
I am a big macher.'
Like all good primers, YIDDISH WITH GEORGE AND LAURA tells a simple story--and, in the end, important life lessons are imparted.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - This book reveals more about the authors than the subject
This mean-spirited piece of garbage says more about the writers than it's subject, the Bush family. A nasty case of projection it looks to me. Shame on them and shame on the noodnicks that wasted their money on this low crap.
Rating:  - HILARIOUS
We read this book aloud to each other, pausing at every Yiddish word to read the extremely funny glossary definition. We actually howled out loud with laughter....and then immediately ordered copies for family and friends. Truly delightful!
Rating:  - Sequel not as good as original--trying too hard
Yiddish With Dick and Jane had me laughing out loud all throughout, but this one just didn't do it for me. Somehow it was funny when they threw Yiddish into the Dick and Jane world, but I don't think it worked as well when they tried for a sequel in the political world. I mean there are many other reviewers who got some laughs out of it, which is great, but I thought this one was kind of awkward and grasping. Yiddish and the Bushes didn't really gel this time, in my view. The glossary uses all the terms in silly attempts at political jokes. At the end there is a somewhat lengthy explanation of why the book is supposed to be funny. I wanted this book to be good and to live up to Y w/D & J, but I was disappointed. I gave it a couple points because it had a few terms I didn't already know, but some of the phrases were long and looked particularly strange when put into the mouths of the Bushes.
Rating: - Brilliant and hysterical!
Jewish Democrats will love this book. I've been giving copies of Yiddish with Dick and Jane as Bar and Bat Mitzvah presents for years to great acclaim and this one is that much funnier.
Rating: - great book
this book was written very well. it was just as if george and laura were realy dick and jane. the parts with the yiddish was very appropriate. i loved it.
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