Shalom Aleichem got it from the Shtetl BOBRIKA, where he used to live at some time. In order to make it easier to pronounce and to sound more Yiddish than Ukrainian, he changed it in his writings to Boyberik.
It has nothing to do with „bobe."
Ruth
On Jun 4, 2015, at 9:50 AM, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote:
> And where did Shalom Aleichem get it from?
> Either from the little village near Lviv (then Lvov) named Bibrka
> or a made up word, sounding vaguely like something to do with " bobe" or 'babe".
> For some reason, in Yiddish whenever something distant in time or location
> is to be alluded to it often includes something to do with grandmother,
> like: "der babes a zvok" ( a distant relative is called grandmother's nail).
> or: "in der zeit fun der babe" ( during the days of the grandmother).
>
> Mimi
> On Jun 4, 2015, at 12:45 AM, Hardy Breier wrote:
>
>> Boyberik is a fictional location its roots
>> from Shalom Aleichems writings.
>>
>> Hardy
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