The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #53918   Message #833727
Posted By: Genie
24-Nov-02 - 04:27 AM
Thread Name: BS: What have the Jews ever done for us?
Subject: RE: BS: What have the Jews ever done for us?
chale (challah) bread

really great cheesecake

George M. Cohan, so I'm told

gefilte fish

wonderful Yiddish words such as fakakteh, verklempt, mumser, kvetch, schmendrich, putz, chutzpeh, kibbitz

Linda Richman

Oy, vey!

*The Unicorn Song

*The Queen Of The Silver Dollar

*A Boy Named Sue (?)

Ladino music

Hanukkah guilt gelt

Israeli folk dancing

Sandy Koufax

Sigmund Freud

Albert Einstein

Karl Marx

Fiddler On The Roof

songs about dancing rabbis

Theodore Bikel

Oscar Hammerstein

Irving Berlin

George and Ira Gershwin

Sammy Kahn

Kinky Friedman

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* and other songs, poems, etc. by Shel Silverstein