Both of my grandmothers spoke Yiddish to me, even when they were speaking English. Their efforts to converse with their little American grandson were as inescapably polyglot as Yiddish itself, a mixtuchre of homeland and immigrant reality too jumbled to deconstruct. Both of my grandmothers had been living here for over thirty years by the time I was born. Both spoke English
My Yiddishe Grandmamas
My Yiddishe Grandmamas
My Yiddishe Grandmamas
Both of my grandmothers spoke Yiddish to me, even when they were speaking English. Their efforts to converse with their little American grandson were as inescapably polyglot as Yiddish itself, a mixtuchre of homeland and immigrant reality too jumbled to deconstruct. Both of my grandmothers had been living here for over thirty years by the time I was born. Both spoke English