"Kenneth Brody" > wrote in message
...
> Leon wrote:
>>
>> "Dori A Schmetterling" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > My grandmother in Haifa (of blessed memory) drank her tea like that,
>> > but
>> > then she was a Galizianer...
>>
>> I have convinced a local Catholic theologian that "Galizianer" is the
>> Hebrew word for "Galician" and he used it on a local TV panel show. Now
>> I am working on "schlemiel" for "Samuel".
>
> I thought "Galizianer" _did_ mean "someone from Galicia"? Next, you're
> going to tell me that "Litvak" is not "someone from Lithuania". (Or is
> it just that it's not Hebrew?)
>

Yeah, Ken, something like that. You know how we are, always joking here on
this ng.

Leon