An impractical dreamer. What does a bagel have in common with lox or a maven with a golem? They all are words that have come to us from Yiddish. While Yiddish has words to describe almost everything its speakers need it for, there's no match to its stockpile of colorful words to describe people. From schlemiel to schlimazel to schmo to schnook. This week we'll look at five other words from Yiddish that are now part of the English language. More...