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Leo Calvin Rosten (April 11, 1908 - February 19, 1997) was born in Lodz, Russian Empire (now Poland) and died in New York City. He was a teacher and academic, but is best known as a humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism and Yiddish lexicography.

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Average rating: 4.05 · 663 ratings · 101 reviews · 31 distinct works

	The Education of Hyman Kaplan by Leo Rosten, Leonard Q. Ross (aka) 4.07 avg rating — 218 ratings — published 1937 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Joys of Yiddish 4.13 avg rating — 219 ratings — published 1968 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Pan Kaplan má stále třídu rád 4.38 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1976 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Religions of America 3.84 avg rating — 37 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Captain Newman, M. D. 3.94 avg rating — 34 ratings	My rating:
	The Return of Hyman Kaplan 3.81 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1959 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Hooray for Yiddish!: A Book about English 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1982 — 4 editions	My rating:
	People I Have Loved, Known, Or Admired 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings	My rating:
	The Joys of Yinglish: An Exuberant Dictionary of Yiddish Words, Phrases, and Locutions ... 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated by Leo Rosten, Lawrence Bush (Revised by) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all..”
― Leo Rosten

tags: inspirational , purpose , truth

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“Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.”
― Leo Rosten

tags: animals , children , humor , w-c-fields

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“The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.”
― Leo Rosten

tags: writing

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