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03763aam a22005898i 4500 001 DA491B5A0F7411EBB906723149ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201016010011 008 200420t20202020nyua b 001 0deng 010 $a 2020015918 020 $a 1324005912 020 $a 9781324005919 035 $a (OCoLC)1137818284 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d OCL $d TOH $d HHO $d UAP $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-gw--- $a e-gw--- 050 00 $a PF5995 $b .P835 2020 082 00 $a 437.009 $2 23 100 1 $a Puchner, Martin, $d 1969- $e author. 245 14 $a The language of thieves : $b my family's obsession with a secret code the Nazis tried to eliminate / $c Martin Puchner. 246 30 $a My family's obsession with a secret code the Nazis tried to eliminate 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b W.W. Norton & Company, $c [2020] 300 $a 278 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-259) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 650 0 $a German language $x Slang. 650 0 $a Cant $z Germany. 650 0 $a Thieves $x Language. 650 0 $a Tramps $x Language. 650 0 $a Language policy $z Germany $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Germany $x Political aspects. $x Political aspects. 600 10 $a Puchner, Martin, $d 1969- 600 10 $a Puchner, Martin, $d 1969- $x Family. 650 0 $a College teachers $z United States $v Biography. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 11 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417015439.0 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314022158.0 952 $l WCPC115 $d 20230629023414.0 952 $l BVPE851 $d 20220728020701.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20210723014038.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210707013558.0 952 $l YSPD232 $d 20210601010828.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20210416010056.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210202014800.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20201202011135.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20201016010123.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DA491B5A0F7411EBB906723149ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search