This should be a joke

Oct 27, 2010 12:45

But it's not.

It's the story of a Sefardi man whose mother is called Ledicia. She passes, and he wants to name a child after her. So he names his next daughter... Eidel (the Yiddish equivalent). When asked why exactly, he answered "because I wanted her to have a Hebrew name".

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this is depressing, ladino, ignorance, naming, assimilation, names, hebrew, yiddish

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