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Leo Calvin Rosten (Yiddish: ליאָ קאַלװין ראָסטען ; April 11, 1908 – February 19, 1997) was an American writer and humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism, and Yiddish lexicography.
Leo Rosten (born April 11, 1908, Łódź, Pol.—died Feb. 19, 1997, New York, N.Y.) was a Polish-born American author and social scientist best known for his popular books on Yiddish and for his comic novels featuring the immigrant night-school student Hyman Kaplan.
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Feb 20, 1997 · Leo Rosten, the writer, scholar and language maven who introduced millions of Americans to the deep lexical pleasures of chutzpah and shlemiel and kibitz and nosh, died yesterday at his...
Feb 19, 1997 · Leo Calvin Rosten was born in Lodz, Russian Empire (now Poland) and died in New York City. He was a teacher and academic, but is best known as a humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism and Yiddish lexicography.
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Leo Calvin Rosten was a Polish-born American author, teacher and researcher. He is branded as a comedian in the sphere of screenwriting, stories, journalism and lexicography of Yiddish, a standard German language of Ashkenazi Jewish origin.
Feb 21, 1997 · Leo Rosten was an American author and social scientist who wrote humorous books about immigrants, Yiddish and English. He also taught at several universities, worked for the Office of War Information and was an Anglophile who loved London.
Feb 21, 1997 · Leo Rosten, who introduced mainstream America to the subtleties of schlemiels, schmaltz and chutzpah in “The Joys of Yiddish,” has died. He was 88. Rosten, who died Wednesday at his home in...
