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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.

    Cookbooks in the United States. 2009

  • 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).

    Sophia Dubnow-Erlich. 2009

  • “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

  • 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.

    languagehat.com: ORHAN VELI. 2004

  • I did learn the word лабух lábukh 'musician, band member' from him, though; does anybody know the etymology?

    languagehat.com: ORHAN VELI. 2004

  • 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.

    languagehat.com: ORHAN VELI. 2004

  • How can I do anything if you bukh [babble] all round the shop? '

    Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • I'm not dreading anything, but my heart's going bukh, bukh ... well, too late now.

    Pratie Place 2008

  • 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

  • “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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