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in pencil at top of left margin Hecht, Mike [1982] newspaper clipping hand-written: WSJ Dec 14, 1982 The Bookshelf "Hooray for Yiddish" By Leo Rosten

Oy, Aha! and Other Nice Words from Leo Rosten By ROBERT DAWIDOFF

   Leo Rosten was five years old when he was initiated into the expressive delights of his native Yiddish.  It seems his father told him a joke;

joke is bracketed in red ink with a red arrow pointing to it Three cross eyed witnesses stood before the bench of a cross-eyed judge. "What's your name?" the judge asked the first man. "Eli Krantz," replied the second. "I wasn't talking to you!" snapped the judge. "I didn't italicized: say anything !" cried the third. And Mr. Rosten's die was cast.

   "Hoorray for Yiddish!" (Simon and Schuster; 363 pages; $15.95) continues and expands on Mr. Rosten's "The Joys of Yiddish."