Re: Odp: polkovnik?

[Helen Winkler <winklerh...>]

"Polkovnik?
I've never heard about such dance.
Word "polkovnik = pulkownik" i definitely polish and
means "colonel" !!"
Jerzy Matysiakiewicz M.D., Ph.D
Poland-Polska

Someone loaned me a photo book called "Image Before My Eyes A Photographic 
Life in Poland Before the Holocaust."  In it there is a picture with the 
following caption:  "Two Hasidim masquerading as Polish officers of an 
earlier time entertain the wedding party with feats of swordsmanship."  I 
wonder if polkovnik has any connection to this sort of pantomime.?
Helen
______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

---------------------- jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org ---------------------+