ABSTRACT
I don’t get no respect! Rodney Dangerfield, 1980; comedian-born Jacob Cohen, 1921-2004
I was born in the United States into a Yiddish-speaking household. I learned the working class English of New York City as my second language. Part of my family in Argentina and Puerto Rico speaks Spanish, another of my languages. Starting in kindergarten, I attended a bilingual school where we learned in English in the morning and in Hebrew in the afternoon. Later on, I studied French in high school and college.
