Leo Rosten wrote in " The Joys of Yiddish " about the first known mention of the word bajgiel in the " Community Regulations " of the city of Kraków in 1610, which stated that the item was given as a gift to women in childbirth.

Leo Calvin Rosten ( April 11, 1908-February 19, 1997 ) was born in Łódź, Russian Empire ( now Poland ) and died in New York City.

Rosten showed an interest in books and language very early, and began writing stories when he was only nine.

Rosten was a successful screenwriter.

Rosten was an inveterate Anglophile.

According to Alex Abella's Soldiers of Reason, Rosten was influential in forming the Social Sciences division of RAND Corporation.

It was originally published in 1968 and written by Leo Rosten.

Following this definitions, this article is about Ameridish, and Yiddish words used by English-speaking Jews is about what Rosten defines as Yinglish ; his use, however, is inconsistent with his own definitions.

This is the meaning of the term used by Leo Rosten in The Joys of Yiddish.

Rosten is best remembered for his stories about the night-school " prodigy " Hyman Kaplan, written under the pseudonym Leonard Q. Ross.

Another Rosten work is Leo Rosten's Treasury of Jewish Quotations.

According to Leo Rosten, the Yiddish maven and author of The Joys of Yiddish, " mensch " is " someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character.

In the same work, Rosten also defined the term as " that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.

is attributed to Leo Rosten.

The movie is based on the 1963 novel by Leo Rosten.

* 1997 – Leo Rosten, American Yiddish writer and humorist ( b. 1908 )

Elizabeth Mead ( 1909 – 1983 ), an artist and teacher, married cartoonist William Steig, and Priscilla Mead ( 1911 – 1959 ) married author Leo Rosten.

Leo Rosten defines " Yinglish " as " Yiddish words that are used in colloquial English " ( such as kibitzer ) and Ameridish as words coined by Jews in the United States.

His parents were Samuel C. Rosten and Ida ( Freundlich ) Rosten, both trade unionists.

They opened a knitting shop in the Greater Lawndale area of Chicago, where Rosten and his younger sister grew up among other working-class Jewish families.

At a tribute dinner to fellow humorist W. C. Fields, a youngish and reportedly nervous Rosten came up with the unscripted remark about Fields that " any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

On March 30, 1935, Rosten married Priscilla Ann " Pam " Mead ( 1911 – 1959 ), a fellow graduate student at the University of Chicago and sister of anthropologist Margaret Mead.

On Conversations with Eric Sevareid he interviewed such famous newsmakers as West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, novelist Leo Rosten and others.

Rosten published revised versions of the book with different titles: Hooray for Yiddish!

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.