Re: "Much ado about gornisht"

[George Robinson <GRComm...>]

Why "if you're white?" In New York, everyone is Jewish sooner or later.
If only in the old Lenny Bruce routine sense: "Charlie Parker is Jewish.
Lawrence Welk is goyish."

George Robinson (who lives in New York and is white and definitely
Jewish)


Marvin wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Judith R. Cohen <judithc (at) YorkU(dot)CA>
> To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 10:46 PM
> Subject: "Much ado about gornisht"
> 
> > This isn't about  music but I think you'll like it. In the Canadian
> > Jewish News today there appeared a paragraph with this heading, "Much
> > ado about gornisht". It appears that in Parliament someone mispronounced
> > "khutzpa" and the Deputy Prime Minister immediately got up and said of
> > the Member of Parliament who had just spoken that "his questions are all
> > gornisht and absolute narishkeit." The Speaker of the House called for
> > order, on the grounds that "I have no way of knowing whether these words
> > are parliamentary".
> 
> Which puts me in mind of a news story last week in the New York Times about
> a nun who lives in Greenwich Village and manages a business there.  The
> story mentioned her collection of ceramic nun figurines, and quoted her as
> calling them "nun tchatchkes".  There is a saying that if you live in New
> York and you're white - you're Jewish.
> 

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