Thursday Post: "SCHMATTA"

[brendala.livejournal.com]

Schmatta: Yiddish for "rag". Like it's English equilivent, it can be colloqually used to refer to crappy clothing.

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he, he!

[theidolhands.livejournal.com]

I'd actually never heard of this one, thanks!

[med_cat]

Love your sketches ;)

"At the advice of a few members of the family, and with their generous assistance, my father became a house-to-house peddler, a vendor of dry goods. Prices of tablecloths, towels, and bed sheets, measurements of material for curtains and bedspreads, now took the place of the knotty problems of the Talmud.

'I am cluttering up my mind with _shmates_ and _shmochtes_,' he would say to anyone who inquired what he was doing for a living..."

(From Yuri Suhl's "One Foot in America")

[brendala.livejournal.com]

And I love your fun little story additions. :)

[med_cat]

My pleasure! I highly recommend "One Foot in America" if you'd not read it before ;)