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Willie Sklar,1920s. Louise, Miss.<\/p><\/div>\n
After my relatives bailed, I looked for distant relatives elsewhere. I found them via the media. My son Teddy found a Mississippi connection on a PBS documentary, “Delta Jews,” about the Jews of the Mississippi Delta. The mayor of Louise, Miss., had been my mother’s cousin. (My mother grew up in Yazoo City, Miss.) Teddy called a Mississippi relative who had been in the documentary. We eventually met the Mississippi clan and have gotten together with them several times. Most are lawyers. They have Southern accents. That’s what you want from Southerners — an accent. So often an educated Southerner will disappoint you on that front.<\/p>\n
My West-by-Gawd Vuh-gin-yuh relatives don\u2019t have accents. Maybe I can induce them with wine and afikommen money to fake accents tonight.<\/p>\n
— My last cousin left Cleveland in 2001. My relatives went to warmer places or died. Cleveland was not hopping. (Still isn\u2019t.) I’m in about two traffic jams a year in Cleveland. I would prefer five. I don’t relish the horrible traffic of Chicago or Washington, but just a few more traffic jams in Cleveland […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34252"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34263,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34252\/revisions\/34263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI’m part of a kosher-style, David Sedaris-ripoff reading \/ music gig\u00a0 7 pm. Sat., May 2, at Heights Arts<\/strong>, 2175 Lee Road, Cleveland Hts. It’ll be klezmer, spoken word and Motown. The trio is Tamar Gray (vocals), Alan Douglass (keys), and me on clarinet and spoken word. The event is free but get a\u00a0<\/a>TICKET<\/a><\/strong> prior because the gallery will probably “sell out.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"