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003			OCoLC
005			20201103100104.0
008			200420s2020 nyua g b 001 0deng
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019			_a1198376692
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100	1		_aPuchner, Martin, _d1969- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe language of thieves : _bmy family's obsession with a secret code the Nazis tried to eliminate / _cMartin Puchner.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bW. W. Norton & Company, Inc., _c[2020]
300			_a278 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"Tracking an underground language from one family's obsession to the outcasts who spoke it in order to survive. Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in graffiti and spoken only by people who were "wiz" (in the know)--vagrants and refugees, merchants and thieves. This hybrid language was rich in expressions for police, jail, or experiencing trouble, such as "being in a pickle." And beginning with Martin Luther, German Protestants who disliked its speakers wanted to stamp it out. The Nazis hated it most of all. As a boy, Martin Puchner learned this secret language through his father and uncle. Only as an adult did he discover, through a poisonous 1930s tract on Jewish names, that his own grandfather, an historian and archivist, had been a committed Nazi who hated everything his sons and grandsons loved about "the language of thieves." Interweaving family memoir with scholarship and an adventurous foray into the politics of language, Puchner crafts an entirely original journey narrative. In a language born of migration and hybridity, he discovers a witty and resourceful spirit of tolerance that remains essential today"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [251]-259) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: Language Games -- Camouflage Names -- The Book of Vagrants -- A Picture Comes into View -- The Rotwelsch Inheritance -- The King of the Tramps -- The Farmer and the Judge -- An Attic in Prague -- When Jesus Spoke Rotwelsch -- Igpay Atinlay for Adults -- The Story of an Archivist -- Judgment at Hikels-Mokum -- Error-Spangled Banner -- Your Grandfather Would Have Been Proud of You -- Rotwelsch in America -- The Laughter of a Yenish Chief.
650		0	_aGerman language _xSlang.
650		0	_aCant _zGermany.
650		0	_aThieves _xLanguage.
650		0	_aTramps _xLanguage.
650		0	_aLanguage policy _zGermany _xHistory _y20th century.
651		0	_aGermany _xLanguages _xPolitical aspects.
600	1	0	_aPuchner, Martin, _d1969-
600	1	0	_aPuchner, Martin, _d1969- _xFamily.
650		0	_aCollege teachers _zUnited States _vBiography. _9219733
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
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