Re: elvis

[Alex J. Lubet <lubet001...>]

I've also heard he was a shabes goy, along with Colin Powell (who claims to know
Yiddish!) and Rudy Giuliani.  It's also said he had a Jewish grandmother
(maternal).  This is all fairly common parlance (although I can't recall my
sources offhand), but that doesn't make it so!  Worse things could be true!





Klezcorner (at) aol(dot)com wrote:

> In a message dated 8/21/2 6:51:29 PM, klezmer (at) yiddishmusic(dot)com 
> writes:
>
> << I don't have time to check this out (going away tomorrow) and the article
> in the local Jewish weekly has already been clipped and sent to another
> list member, but I read that Elvis used to live downstairs from a khazn
>  >>
>
> do you remember the Jewish weekly that ran the article?
> Simon
>

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