The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate by Martin Puchner

The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate

Martin Puchner

288 pages hardcover 2020

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You might have heard the saying ‘you’re in a pickle’ meaning you’re in a difficult situation. This is just one example of Rotwelsch, an ancient language of the road influenced by Yiddish and written in rudimentary signs, and spoken by vagrants and...

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