By Barbara Davilman

Read by Ellis Weiner

Read by Barbara Davilman

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What do George and Laura Bush have in common with Dick and Jane? Well, both hail from prototypical WASP families. And, perhaps more to the point, both exhibit a natural resistance to moral complexity (i.e., reality).

That’s the premise of this hilarious new primer-style book in which George, Laura, and the entire Bush family communicate with uncharacteristic expressiveness, conveying shades of of feeling and nuances of meaning that plain old English can’t deliver — by peppering their conversatuon with Yiddishisms.

See George’s mother.

Her name is Bar.

She wears a lot of pearls and is a farbisseneh.

“You are late, George,” Bar says.

“Of course I am late,” George says.

“I am the President of the United States. I am a big macher.”

Like all good primers, Yiddish With George and Laura tells a simple story — and, in the end, important life lessons are imparted.

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On Sale: Oct 10, 2006
Publisher: Hachette Audio
ISBN-13: 9781594836442

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Ellis Weiner

About the Author

Ellis Weiner is the only person, dead or alive, who has published in the National Lampoon (where he was an editor), Spy (where he wrote a column), and The New Yorker (where he still appears). He is co-author, with Barbara Davilman, of Yiddish With Dick and Jane, Yiddish With George and Laura, How to Raise a Jewish Dog, The Big Jewish Book for Jews, and other titles. He is founder and editor-in-chief of the Sherman Oaks Review of Books, a “channel” of the Los Angeles Review of Books, which debuted in 2016.

Steve Radlauer is the author or co-author of six books. He was a contributing editor at Spy magazine and has contributed to Esquire, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and others. He has worked in television as a writer and producer and has written and produced films that have appeared in venues as diverse as Saturday Night Live, Sesame Street, and the New York Film Festival.

Randy Jones is an illustrator whose work has appeared in the National Lampoon, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, US News & World Report, and many other publications.

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