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But I do not know Hebrew and know nothing about the contents of the book.
She spoke very poor Russian. ‘I all wet, up to my knees’ she used to say (her speech was full of typical Jewish mistakes) having come home from the market when it rained very hard. To us she spoke only Russian: my father could speak not a syllable in Yiddish. And sometimes she spoke to my mother in Yiddish.
She spoke very poor Russian. ‘I all wet, up to my knees’ she used to say (her speech was full of typical Jewish mistakes) having come home from the market when it rained very hard. To us she spoke only Russian: my father could speak not a syllable in Yiddish. And sometimes she spoke to my mother in Yiddish.
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Boris Lesman
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