Hibke is a yiddish transformation of Hapka. Hapka is a short for a russian/Ukrainean name Agrepina.
In Chernowitz in my time we called Hapka or, as my babe Freide would say Hipke an uneducated shikse
Alex
Alexander D. Gelman, PhD
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> On Oct 29, 2016, at 09:43, Merle Kastner <merlebk18_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I received this inquiry from a friend whose family also came from Bukovina:
>
> 'I commented on a book I was reading a couple of days ago to a friend, and
> said it's a "mieseh fin hipkeh", meaning it's a long drawn out story that
> doesn't seem to come to an end.
>
> She had never heard of the expression. So I emailed my cousin, who also
> replied it was new to him and another friend had also never heard of that
> expression.
>
> Perhaps it was an expression used in Bucovina. All my older relatives are
> gone and there is no one to ask.'
>
> Does anyone know this expression?
>
> Merle
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