2026-04-10 23:24 UTC
@jschwart@mas.to My uncle married the daughter of refugees from H*****, but most American Jews are from before that. The most recent immigrants in my family were from the time of the FIRST Russian Revolution. So before WW1.
(My least recent immigrants were British from the early 1600s and did things like enslave the indigenous folk and drive that nice man Roger Williams out of Massachusetts.)
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@chemoelectric@masto.ai 2026-04-10 23:28
@jschwart@mas.to So one can view my name as Yiddish, but of course Yiddish is a dialect of High German. Full of Hebrew and Aramaic, though. I mean, ‘king’ is ‘melech’. (Low German being an entirely different language. I recently inquired here whether King William of England and the Colonies such as New Jersey, being from the Duchy of Brunswick, was a speaker of Low German. I didn’t get an answer.)