Re: [Cz-L] Rag Market

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"Shmateh" has also been used in American English for some time, though not
exactly with its original Yiddish meaning.
My father, who survived WWII in Japan where he had been exporting
inexpensive textiles and clothing to the Caribbean,
was said by Americans to be "in the shmateh trade".
And the following lines in the song "Shattered" by the Rolling Stones refer
to the troubled state of NYC's garment industry at the time of the garbage
collectors strike:
"All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter bout
Shmatta, shmatta, shmatta -- I can't give it away on 7th avenue
This towns been wearing tatters (shattered, shattered)"
- Mick Jagger & Keith Richards, 1978)
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>wrote:
> People in general did not buy rags, even though there were
> a very few who did; those were rags bought for the paper industry.
> But the Yiddish word for rag is: Shmateh and often it was applied
> to used clothing, for which there always was a market
> and particularly in late 1944 and 1945. I remember going
> to this market which was held on the Mehlplatz.
>
> Mimi
>
> On Nov 20, 2013, at 7:25 AM, Ellen Greenspan wrote:
>
>  Hardy mentioned a place that used to be a rag market. Did people buy rags?
>> [Ellen Greenspan]
>>
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