Very good, I suppose there must be a lot of jokes on mix up of English
and Yiddish.
An old one is about Moishe (let us assume being born in Czernowitz for
the sake of our forum), having succeeded in business and spending a
lot of money on welfare etc. is knighted by the Queen. Returning home
after the ceremony his friends ask about how it was.
" I was extremely excited up to the point that I forgot the formal
words I had to say during the act of the sword touching my shoulders,
the only thing that came automatically to my mind were the 4 kashes
from my childhood - so I murmured the Ma Nishtana Halaila Haze Mikol
Haleilot- and everything went smoothly.
But you won't believe me: The Queen understands Hebrew!"
How do you know that?
She bent to the ear of her husband and I heard her translate to him:
Why is this knight so different from any other Knights ? She must be
fluent in Hebrew!
[Berti Gladbach]
On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 6:35 AM, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylor37_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Berti,
>
> Strange that it had never occurred to me that my husband and I might be named
> Chayes, even though I know that the family changed their name from Schneider
> To Taylor after relocating to Scotland.
> And now I cannot resist telling a joke; How does a Jewish family living in Scotland
> Come to be named Ferguson? Answer: On the ship from Latvia the Jewish man
> Is told that Kaganovich is not a good name in Britain and he is advised to take
> A more English sounding name, so he chooses one, but when he arrives in Scotland,
> He is tired and confused, so when the immigration officer asks him for his name,
> He answers: "shoin fergessen", and becomes Shawn Ferguson.
>
> Mimi
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