Hey I am a schlemiel and I am not Yiddish in fact I am not even Jewish .Its
my Goyisha Kopp .I am skippy which means I am from Australia ,no not
Austria, Australia .And for you who eat treif we were selling you Americans
Kangaroo meat for years as prime Australian Beef, seriously .So remember EAT
KOSHER .




"Herman Rubin" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> Kenneth Brody > wrote:
>>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?)
>
>
> Those words are definitely not Hebrew; they are Yiddish.
>
> Schlemiel is also Yiddish.
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