Wednesday, March 31, 2010

IMAGINE "SHIVER ME TIMBERS" AND "AVAST YE, MATEYS" IN YIDDISH

You'll HAVE to imagine it, because there's surely no translation. Anyway:

It looks as if at least one member of our family was on a ship that was diverted to Latin America or South America. (Cuba was the farbissener destination of the ill-fated ship St. Louis.) Facebook shows Ezequiel Saferstein and Santiago Saferstein. Their parents gave them names suitable to whatever country was kind enough to take them in . . . but the names sure sound, ummm, strange? Oh well. Santiago and Ezequiel probably think the names David, Lynne, Ruth, Rita, and Michael Saferstein sound exotic.

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