Reading through this list, I realized I’d stumbled upon a treasure trove of expressive insults unlike any of the words I’d previously used to mock my worst enemies-namely, men. Towards the end of the book, I came across a section titled “Morons and Misfits” in which I was told I would “meet the nudniks and numbskulls,” the “fools and the villains of Jewish life.” So when my partner brought home The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Learning Yiddish, I flipped through it to see if I, too, was an idiot capable of learning Yiddish.
