http://pics.livejournal.com/stepan53/pic/002g3czx
Old Postgasse with the Stock Exchange.
Czernowitzer Wall street.
The street is full of Privatiers.
In Yiddish the word was Leidiggeiers.
That is idle goers. Idlers.
Ledig in German is single.
In Yiddish it changed to leidig -empty.
Relates to the life of the single person.
Hardy
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