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Puchner, Martin, 1969-
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Puchner, Martin, 1969-
Puchner, Martin, 1969- -- Family.
German language -- Slang.
Cant -- Germany.
Thieves -- Language.
Tramps -- Language.
Language policy -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
College teachers -- United States -- Biography.
Germany -- Languages -- Political aspects.
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Puchner, Martin, 1969-
Puchner, Martin, 1969-
Puchner, Martin, 1969- -- Family.
German language -- Slang.
Cant -- Germany.
Thieves -- Language.
Tramps -- Language.
Language policy -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
College teachers -- United States -- Biography.
Germany -- Languages -- Political aspects.
MARC Display
The
language
of
thieves
:
my
family
's
obsession
with a
secret
code
the
Nazis
tried
to
eliminate
/ Martin Puchner.
by
Puchner, Martin, 1969-
W. W. Norton & Company, [2020]
Subjects
Puchner, Martin, 1969-
Puchner, Martin, 1969- --
Family
.
German
language
-- Slang.
Cant -- Germany.
Thieves
--
Language
.
Tramps --
Language
.
Language
policy -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
College teachers -- United States -- Biography.
Germany -- Languages -- Political aspects.
ISBN:
9781324005919
1324005912
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
278 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-259) and index.
Contents:
Introduction:
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.
Summary:
"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"--Publisher.
Genre:
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
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