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Re: "Much ado about gornisht"

----- Original Message -----
From: George Robinson <GRComm (at) concentric(dot)net>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: "Much ado about gornisht"


> 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."

Man walks into Katz's deli, and sees an Oriental clerk behind the counter,
speaking Yiddish.

Man to Owner:  "Where'd you find a Chinaman who speaks Yiddish?"

Owner, in a whisper: "Shhh!  He thinks he's learning English."

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