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Some of my friends growing up in Curacao referred the the source of gossip
rumor-mongering about members of the local Ashkenazi community as the IPA,
an expression they must have heard of from their Europe-born Yiddish
speaking parents.
There is also a reference to a =E2=80=9CBabske Radio=E2=80=9D (old-wives ra=
dio) in the
film, A Shtetl in the Caribbean, when my friend Tsale asked a
Yiddish-speaking elderly woman living in Israel how she=E2=80=99d heard tha=
t his
mother had survived the Holocaust. I later learned that a film by this name
was made about a village near Kiev.
[Mark Wiznitzer]
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 10:47 AM Irene Fishler <irenef_at_netvision.net.il>
wrote:
> Plotke =3D Gossip !
> I believe IPA (JPA) was a funny paraphrasing of the important JTA (Jewish
> Telegraphic Agency ) founded already in 1917 !
> So, IPA is 100 years old, at least.
> A testimony from Transnistria:
> "There was no radio or newspaper but there was a lot of news agencies,
> such as the Y.P.A. "Yiddishe Plotke Agentur," (Jewish Gossip Agency) or t=
he
> Y. V. A.. "Yiden Vilen Azoi" (Jewish Wish Agency) and others. The news we=
re
> usually the type of forecasting disasters as well as that which gave hope
> for better times. After the Stalingrad defeat of the Germans, information
> which reached us with some delay, has added to the forecasts of the
> Agencies some optimistic news. Before Stalingrad most of the news were wi=
th
> a pessimistic news."
> From: https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lipkany/lip002.html
> About JTA :
> https://www.jta.org/about-us/jta-history
>
> Best Hanukkah wishes to All!
> Irene
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