Yenta
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yenta (pronounced [ j nta]) is a Yiddish female name. In the age of Yiddish theater, it started referring to a busybody or gossipmonger. The word has since become Yinglish (a Yiddish loanword in American Jewish English). In the 1920's Yenta was first used by a famous humorist, Jacob Adler, writing under his pen name B. Kovner, in which he created the character yenta, and featured Yenta in a Broadway play entiled Yenta Telebenta. Yenta was also his character in a 50 year writing career for the Jewish Daily Forward. Jacob Adler lived to 102. It was also the name of the matchmaker in the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof and the word has also come to mean "matchmaker" in modern usage. The name of the Linux CardBus controller driver, which brings together Cardbus cards with the rest of the computer. It is also the fictional electronic matchmaking PDA featured in the film Shortbus.
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- GTIN 09786131985669
- Editor Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
- EAN 9786131985669
- Titel Yenta
- Herausgeber Betascript Publishing
- Anzahl Seiten 116
- Genre Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften
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