My free translation: go tell a gentile the whole story. But in my story
(when meeting the German engineer in Munich), the meaning was: Now how can I
explain, in few words, to that stranger, that I was born in Ukraine and my
mother's language is German (God forbid to say Cernowitzerish)?
[please post in plain text --thanks]
From: ajs1pres_at_aol.com [mailto:ajs1pres_at_aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 10:26 PM
To: ashtur_at_netvision.net.il
Subject: translate
Gey atzeil a goy the ganze miense
Asher,
could you please translate this for me.
Thanks
Bruce WExler
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