Leo Calvin Rosten (Yiddish: ליאָ קאַלװין ראָסטען‎; April 11, 1908 – February 19, 1997) was an American writer and humorist in the fields of scriptwriting...

Guitarist Leo Ku (born 1972), Hong Kong singer and actor Leo Rosten (1908–1997), American humorist Leo Saussay (born 1990), Thai actor and singer Leo Sayer...

English physicist Irwin Rosten (1924–2010), American documentary filmmaker Leo Rosten (1908–1997), American humorist Norman Rosten (1913–1995), American...

human being, man) means "a person of integrity and honor". According to Leo Rosten, a mensch is "someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character...

American Ashkenazi Jews. It was originally published in 1968 and written by Leo Rosten. The book distinguished itself by how it explained the meaning of the...

Archived from the original on July 12, 2011. In The Joys of Yiddish by Leo Rosten, it is noted that illiterate immigrants (or those who did not know Roman-English...

general derogatory slur." The Encyclopedia of Swearing suggests that Leo Rosten's suggestion is the most likely. He stated that: The word kike was born...

defined as "well then; expression of dismissal". Hooray for Yiddish, by Leo Rosten uses the phonetic spelling "mnyeh", capturing its breathy, expressive...

Allegedly, Goy can be used in a derogatory manner. The Yiddish lexicographer Leo Rosten in The New Joys of Yiddish defines goy as someone who is non-Jewish or...

which was written by Leo Rosten and had been serialized in magazines, were purchased by Triangle Productions in November 1946. Rosten wrote the first screenplay...

word expresses a strong sense of disapproval, condemnation and outrage. Leo Rosten in The Joys of Yiddish defines chutzpah as "gall, brazen nerve, effrontery...

Middle High German word Jüde (the contemporary German word is Jude). Leo Rosten provides the following etymology: From the German: Jude: 'Jew.' And 'Jude'...

also the cousin of Jeremy Steig as well as a niece of William Steig and Leo Rosten. Toward the end of Bateson's residence in Iran in 1979, Catherine's mother...

and a change in tone, so that tsatskele can become the favorite child. Leo Rosten, author of The Joys of Yiddish, combines the two main meanings and gives...

OEIS Foundation. Retrieved 2022-11-05. see Insights, September 28, 2011. Leo Rosten, The Joys of Yiddish (1968), page 52. Grasso, John (2013), Historical...

Orchestra Fox paid $40,000 for the rights to Leo Rosten's story prior to its publication in Good Housekeeping. Rosten published the story under the pen name...

Jane Russell, Groucho Marx, and Frank Sinatra. The film was written by Leo Rosten (story), Melville Shavelson (screenplay), Mannie Manheim (based on a character...

fictional character in a series of well-received humorous stories by Leo Rosten, published under the pseudonym "Leonard Q. Ross" in The New Yorker in...

the Bible. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. ISBN 9780802824912. Leo Rosten (2010) [1968]. The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated. Crown Publishing...

Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române. Retrieved 9 February 2022. Leo Rosten: The Joys of Yiddish, cited in Kim Pearson's Rhetoric of Race by Eric...

creature the shmoo. Other variants include schmo and shmo.[citation needed] Leo Rosten writes in The Joys of Yiddish that schmuck is commonly viewed among Jews...

The film is based on the 1961 novel by Leo Rosten. It was loosely based on the World War II experiences of Rosten's close friend Ralph Greenson, M.D., while...

played by Miss Russell is another one. The role was so randomly written by Leo Rosten that one finds it hard to see any solid personality or consistency in...

Gitanjali Kolanad, Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd, 2008 p. 45 Leo Rosten, The Joys of Yiddish, © 1968; Pocket Books edition, 1970, p. 379 Media...

Rosenfeld, essayist, short story writer and novelist Leo Rosten, humorist and lexicographer Norman Rosten, novelist Henry Roth, novelist and short story writer...

in Manhattan. Steig's first marriage also made him a brother-in-law of Leo Rosten and an uncle of Mary Catherine Bateson. Steig and Mead were the parents...

department at Lesley College. Steig was a maternal nephew of Margaret Mead and Leo Rosten, and was also the cousin of Mary Catherine Bateson. Steig also composed...

Greek, Brill, 2009, p. 1151. Eshatology – JewishEncyclopedia; 02-22-2010. Leo Rosten, The Joys of Yiddish, © 1968; Pocket Books edition, 1970, p. 127: "Gehenna...

Crockett as The cook The film was based on a novella titled "Cory" by Leo Rosten, published in Cosmopolitan (1948), under the pseudonym Leonard Q. Ross...

problem of how God permits evil and misfortune to happen Jewish humorist Leo Rosten also recounts the story with a rabbi as the protagonist; a 1997 British...