<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Yiddish Words @ libraryladymom.blog-city.com</title><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Yiddish Words) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 libraryladymom.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:47:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Yiddish Words @ libraryladymom.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Enlighten the Gentiles #22: Shiksa, Or It&apos;s A Good Thing We Don&apos;t Do Passover At My House</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/enlighten_the_gentiles_21_shiksa_or_its_a_good_thing_we_dont.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/enlighten_the_gentiles_21_shiksa_or_its_a_good_thing_we_dont.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=enlighten%5Fthe%5Fgentiles%5F21%5Fshiksa%5For%5Fits%5Fa%5Fgood%5Fthing%5Fwe%5Fdont</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[JR is a shiksa.
Well, technically, she isn't. According to Jewish law]]></description></item><item><title>Enlighten the Gentiles #21: &quot;Gonif&quot;, OR: Maybe they figure that if you&apos;re &quot;PHISHING&quot;,spelling and grammar don&apos;t count</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/maybe_they_figure_that_if_youre_phishingspelling_and_grammar.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/maybe_they_figure_that_if_youre_phishingspelling_and_grammar.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 21:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=maybe%5Fthey%5Ffigure%5Fthat%5Fif%5Fyoure%5Fphishingspelling%5Fand%5Fgrammar</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I almost feel as if I should send them a buck or two just for the entertainment value of this one:


    
        
            Dear customer of Chase Bank,Technical services of the Chase Bank are carrying out a planned software upgrade. We earne]]></description></item><item><title>Purim Again</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/purim_again.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/purim_again.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:49:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=purim%5Fagain</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Just as Ash Wednesday, Lent and Easter do not fall on set days of the year, nor do Jewish holidays. Instead, they follow the Jewish calendar--and if you want more information on that look here. The point is, Purim is this week.
I wrote an "enli]]></description></item><item><title>Lights To Remind Us</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/lights_to_remind_us.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/lights_to_remind_us.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2005 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=lights%5Fto%5Fremind%5Fus</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Recently a newspaper advice column had a letter from some whiney tsatskelah complaining of how little emphasis is placed on Hanukah at the shopping malls and places like that. "There are lots of Christmas decorations, and then just one litt]]></description></item><item><title>Enlightening the Gentiles #20: Yarmulkah and Tallit, Or: The Doggie People Have Gone TOO Far This Time</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/enlightening_the_gentiles_yarmulkah_and_tallis_or_the_doggie.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/enlightening_the_gentiles_yarmulkah_and_tallis_or_the_doggie.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:06:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=enlightening%5Fthe%5Fgentiles%5Fyarmulkah%5Fand%5Ftallis%5For%5Fthe%5Fdoggie</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Look, I know people love their dogs. And I know they think it's cute to dress them up as Santa or the Easter Bunny. But this (as seen in today's Washington Post) is not only ridiculous, it's offensive!

The beanie like cap  (usually refer]]></description></item><item><title>Enlighten the Gentiles #19:The Schnorrer and the Katrina Survivors</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/enlighten_the_gentiles_17_the_schnorrer_and_the_katrina_surv.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/enlighten_the_gentiles_17_the_schnorrer_and_the_katrina_surv.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=enlighten%5Fthe%5Fgentiles%5F17%5Fthe%5Fschnorrer%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fkatrina%5Fsurv</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Schnorrer means "beggar". There is a wealth of stories about schnorrers.  They were noted for their wit and skill in fleecing money from the wealthy. If you have ever seen "Fiddler on the Roof", you have seen the line where the b]]></description></item><item><title>Enlighten the Gentiles #18: Special Grandparental Visit Edition: Zayde, Bubbe and the Elephant</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/the_elephant_joke.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/the_elephant_joke.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2005 15:09:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Felephant%5Fjoke</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It is reported that several men of various nationalities were engaged in writing books on the elephant. A German put out a three-volume tome replete with footnotes, entitled ‘A Short Introduction to the Study of the Elephant.’ A Frenchman put out]]></description></item><item><title>Enlighten the Gentiles # 17: Yom Kippur</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/you_dont_have_to_be_jewish_to_get_this_light_bulb_joke.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/you_dont_have_to_be_jewish_to_get_this_light_bulb_joke.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=you%5Fdont%5Fhave%5Fto%5Fbe%5Fjewish%5Fto%5Fget%5Fthis%5Flight%5Fbulb%5Fjoke</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Just when as Garrison Keilor so punnily put it, you thought the light bulb joke had burned out.]]></description></item><item><title>Gratitude: A Story For Supervisors, Managers, and Sometimes Even Parents</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/gratitude_a_story_for_supervisors_managers_and_sometimes_eve.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/gratitude_a_story_for_supervisors_managers_and_sometimes_eve.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=gratitude%5Fa%5Fstory%5Ffor%5Fsupervisors%5Fmanagers%5Fand%5Fsometimes%5Feve</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is a well known Jewish joke, but after years of dealing with the public and the staff, I realize there's a moral here. I leave it to you to see it:A bubbe (grandma) and her grandson were walking along the beach at Coney Island. Suddenly a huge w]]></description></item><item><title>Enlighten the Goyim # 14: Good Yontiff!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/enlighten_the_goyim__14_good_yontiff.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/enlighten_the_goyim__14_good_yontiff.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=enlighten%5Fthe%5Fgoyim%5F%5F14%5Fgood%5Fyontiff</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I live down the hill from a synagogue and for the past 2 days I have had to drive a different route home in order to avoid the traffic in that area.This is not usually the case. But this is the time of the year for the Jewish equivalent of what a de]]></description></item><item><title>Enlighten The Gentiles #15-- Wishing Myself &quot;Mazel Tov&quot; On My Blogiversary</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/enlighten_the_gentiles_13_wishing_myself_mazel_tov_on_my_blo.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/enlighten_the_gentiles_13_wishing_myself_mazel_tov_on_my_blo.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=enlighten%5Fthe%5Fgentiles%5F13%5Fwishing%5Fmyself%5Fmazel%5Ftov%5Fon%5Fmy%5Fblo</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator></item><item><title>When Good Tomatoes Turn Evil/ Enlighten the Gentiles #14:Mohel</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/when_good_tomatoes_turn_evilenlighten_the_goyim_12.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/when_good_tomatoes_turn_evilenlighten_the_goyim_12.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2005 19:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=when%5Fgood%5Ftomatoes%5Fturn%5Fevilenlighten%5Fthe%5Fgoyim%5F12</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[They look something like this:We can't decide whether this looks like a witch--complete with green hair--or something a little more anatomically obscene............So let me give you a Yiddish word for the week: MOHELPronounced "moy-hill"]]></description></item><item><title>Enlighten the Gentiles # 13: Up To Our &quot;Pupiks&quot; In Tomatoes</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/enlighten_the_gentiles__11_pupik.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/enlighten_the_gentiles__11_pupik.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=enlighten%5Fthe%5Fgentiles%5F%5F11%5Fpupik</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Bellybutton!]]></description></item><item><title>Enlighten The Gentiles #12-- Sheer Mishegoss</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/enlighten_the_gentiles_10_sheer_mishegoss.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/enlighten_the_gentiles_10_sheer_mishegoss.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2005 15:16:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=enlighten%5Fthe%5Fgentiles%5F10%5Fsheer%5Fmishegoss</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Mishegoss means nonsense, and there are some people out there who write pure mishegoss Pia, who writes the excellent blog Courting Destiny, and is a featured writer on Bring It On!, is emphatically NOT one of them. She writes well. Not only that, sh]]></description></item><item><title>&quot;Kvelling&quot; Over My Daughter--Enlighten the Gentiles #10</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/kvelling_over_my_daughterenlighten_the_gentiles_8.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/kvelling_over_my_daughterenlighten_the_gentiles_8.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2005 03:20:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=kvelling%5Fover%5Fmy%5Fdaughterenlighten%5Fthe%5Fgentiles%5F8</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Pia of Courting Destiny used the word in a recent entry and asked me to elaborate on it. So, after consulting my well thumbed copy of The Joys of Yiddish, I've come up with the following:Kvell rhyme with the word "swell" and that's appropr]]></description></item><item><title>Enlighten the Gentiles #9:Toches</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/enlighten_the_gentiles_7toches.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/enlighten_the_gentiles_7toches.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2005 14:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=enlighten%5Fthe%5Fgentiles%5F7toches</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This fine Yiddish word is pronounced (according to my Yiddish maven Leo Rosten) to rhyme with "duck-hiss" or "caucus". Either way that "ch" sound needs to be made as if spitting as do all such Yiddish words.It can be]]></description></item><item><title>Enlighten the Gentiles #8: Tsatskelah</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/enlighten_the_gentiles_6_tsatskelah.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/enlighten_the_gentiles_6_tsatskelah.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=enlighten%5Fthe%5Fgentiles%5F6%5Ftsatskelah</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This wonderful Yiddish word is the diminutive version of the word tsatske, meaning"toy" . But it is frequently used to address cute girls and women. The word usually implies "cute but brainless".  I had an incredibly nutty sci]]></description></item><item><title>Enlighten the Gentiles #7--Ashkenazi &amp; Sephardim, Plus A Cookie Recipe</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/enlighten_the_gentilesashkenazi__sephardim_plus_a_cookie_recipe.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/enlighten_the_gentilesashkenazi__sephardim_plus_a_cookie_recipe.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=enlighten%5Fthe%5Fgentilesashkenazi%5F%5Fsephardim%5Fplus%5Fa%5Fcookie%5Frecipe</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If you think that all Jews speak Yiddish, think again. The Askenazi Jews (my background) come from Eastern Europe--Russia, Poland, etcetera. They are the Jews who spoke Yiddish. The culture seen in "Fiddler On the Roof" is Ashkenazaic cult]]></description></item><item><title>Enlighten the Gentiles #4</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/enlighten_the_gentiles_4.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/enlighten_the_gentiles_4.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:17:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=enlighten%5Fthe%5Fgentiles%5F4</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Today's word is YENTAYenta generally refers to a woman who is a gossip or a busybody. According to Leo Rosten's Joys of Yiddish, my bible for all things Yiddish, once upon a time Yenta was a common name for girls. Over the years its negative connotat]]></description></item><item><title>Enlighten the Gentiles #3: Purim and Hamantaschen</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/enlighten_the_gentiles_3_purim_and_hamantaschen.htm</guid><link>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/enlighten_the_gentiles_3_purim_and_hamantaschen.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=enlighten%5Fthe%5Fgentiles%5F3%5Fpurim%5Fand%5Fhamantaschen</comments><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Jewish holiday Purim (poo-rim)will be celebrated this year on Friday, March 25. It is a joyous spring celebration, something like Halloween, something like Mardi Gras but more, because it is a celebration of deliverance from a terrible fate.Th]]></description></item></channel></rss>