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Hinde Amchanitzki's Lehr-bukh vi azoy tsu kokhen un baken (Textbook on How to Cook and Bake), published in New York, c. 1901, was the first Yiddish cookbook published in the United States.
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Translated from the Russian by Khaim Shmuel Kazdan and Leyvik Hodes (history of two intercity Bundist unions in Eastern Europe in Yiddish) (1937); Khmurner-bukh (on Josef Leszczynski and the Bund in Poland in Yiddish).
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“Fun yener zayt lid — a nay bukh fun Rokhl Korn” (On the Other Side of the Poem — a new book by Rokhl Korn).
Rokhl H��ring Korn. 2009
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But the Romanes Gypsy derivation is strengthened by the fact that the prototypical lábukh is a member of a restaurant band, and such bands traditionally featured Gypsy musicians.
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I did learn the word лабух lábukh 'musician, band member' from him, though; does anybody know the etymology?
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The weak point, to me, is how you get from there to the noun lábukh, about as unobvious a derivative as you could hope to find.
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How can I do anything if you bukh [babble] all round the shop? '
Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900
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I'm not dreading anything, but my heart's going bukh, bukh ... well, too late now.
Pratie Place 2008
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This was republished a year later as Di balade fun nekhtikn vald un andere lider (The ballad of yesterday’s forest and other poems), in conjunction with Fragmentn fun a tog-bukh (Fragments of a diary) Montreal: 1948.
Chava Rosenfarb. 2009
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“Dos bukh iz gevidmet ale mayne toyte” (This book is dedicated to all my dead), Korn’s introduction to Heym un heymlozikayt.
Rokhl H��ring Korn. 2009
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