Wednesday, February 20, 2008

You got a home? Go Home.

When my father was little, he used to like to play in the city drains. He would also like to play in the shed at a neighbors house. This neighbor, I believe, was the mother of one of our dear friends, Sam Appel, and of course his mother was from the old country too. But they were from Kaluszyn, Poland. So when I was growing up, I heard the word, "kalashina" often and this was to refer to some other Jews we know but were from elsewhere - wherever that was. Whenever Mrs. Appel had had enough of Dad's shenannigans, she'd say, in her Yiddish accent: "Pheelee, You ghad a whome? Go whome."

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