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LRB Article PDF: Sashimi with a Side of Fries (<i>LRB</i> volume 29 number 16, 16 August 2007) 

LRB Article PDF: Sashimi with a Side of Fries (LRB volume 29 number 16, 16 August 2007)

Adam Thirlwell

This is a miniature dictionary of the invented English in The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon's charming, flawed and exhausting new novel:

bik (Yiddish: bull) - doorman
latke (Yiddish: potato cake) - 1. police cap 2. policeman
noz (Yiddish: nose) - policeman
shammes (Yiddish: assistant to rabbi, beadle) - policeman
sholem (Yiddish: peace) - gun
shoyfer (Yiddish: horn) - cell phone
shtarker (Yiddish: strong man, strong arm) - gangster; hard man

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