[Year of first publication] 1937 [Character(s)] Hyman Kaplan [Work] Short stories in The New Yorker which were gathered into the novel The Education of Hyman Kaplan and other novels [Creator] Leo Rosten [Country of publication] United States [Details] Hyman Kaplan is a Jewish immigrant taking language classes at a night school. Rosten presents him in the tradition of language-based humor highlighting Kaplan's "tongue-in-cheek mistakes which, most of the time, spring from a calculated meeting of Yiddish with English".[63] [Media] 
Short stories, Novel