Writers have celebrated the fruitful dialogue between English and Yiddish for decades. In this engrossing lexicon, Gene Bluestein reveals the full extent of that dialogue, introducing Anglish, or Anglicized Yiddish, in which a Yiddish word is integrated into English usage, as in shmo and shmoozing; and Yinglish, or Yiddishized English, in which an English word is integrated into Yiddish usage, as in allrightnik, or the expression a Heifitz he isn t. Bluestein s insights into and examples of countless Yiddish expressions that have made their way into American English are fascinating and...