Re: Fwd: Yiddish short story for klezmer film sought

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

    Tayere Shirona:
     it makes sense to me. There is just no better language to complain in!
      A Gutte Shabbos!!!
         Trudi the G


>From: "shirona" <shirona (at) bellatlantic(dot)net>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: Fwd: Yiddish short story for klezmer film sought
>Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:27:54 -0700
>
>As a kid in Israel, I remember hearing this joke -
>
>Four year old Moishele to his mother
>" Mama, when will I learn Yiddish?
>- Moishele, you don't have to learn to speak Yiddish... we live in Israel,
>the Jewish homeland, and here we speak Hebrew!
>- But Mama, how will I speak when I GET OLD???"
>*     *     *
>
>I didn't think it was all that funny, but it made sense.  Us kids - we 
>spoke
>Hebrew, and the old folks spoke Yiddish.
>
>Shirona
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Eliott Kahn" <Elkahn (at) JTSA(dot)EDU>
>To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 6:50 AM
>Subject: Re: Fwd: Yiddish short story for klezmer film sought
>
>
> >
> > >
> > >I was at a dinner party some years ago in Toronto,
> > >where a Jewish woman told me: "Yiddish is a clown language."
> > >
> > >For months afterwards, Fraidy and I would crack each other up with:
> > >"Yiddish is a dying language" and
> > >"Yiddish is a clown language"
> > >
> > >(That's two, -- two -- two mints in one!)
> >
> > Another zingo by Wolf Krackupsky!!
> >
> > Chag semeach,
> >
> > Eliott Kahn
> >
> >
>
>

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