{"id":28340,"date":"2021-03-24T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=28340"},"modified":"2021-03-24T09:00:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T13:00:39","slug":"same-old-same-old-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/24\/same-old-same-old-jews\/","title":{"rendered":"SAME OLD, SAME OLD JEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ashkenazi Jews<\/strong><\/span> are the same everywhere. My Mississippi mishpocha <\/em>are lawyers. My relatives in Israel are lawyers. My relatives in Arizona are lawyers. I have relatives, through marriage, in West Virginia. Some are lawyers. (By the way, West Virginia Jews request \u201cCountry Roads\u201d at banquets; I’ve played several West Virginia Jewish Reunions at the Marriott in Charleston.)<\/p>\n

Philip Roth wrote about New Jersey Jews. Joseph Epstein wrote about Chicago Jews. Mordecai Richler wrote about Montreal Jews. Stories populated with pickles and old guys named Herman. (By the way, there’s a Don Hermann’s Pickles in Cleveland.)<\/p>\n

I played a wedding for a Canadian Jew and an American Jew. Under the chuppah the rabbi talked about choosing between \u201cabout\u201d and \u201caboot.\u201d That\u2019s the big difference between an American Yid and a Canadian Yid.<\/p>\n

Happy Passover.<\/p>\n

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\nHere’s an article I just wrote for City Journal<\/em>. “Hanging in There.”<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ashkenazi Jews are the same everywhere. My Mississippi mishpocha are lawyers. My relatives in Israel are lawyers. My relatives in Arizona are lawyers. I have relatives, through marriage, in West Virginia. Some are lawyers. (By the way, West Virginia Jews request \u201cCountry Roads\u201d at banquets; I’ve played several West Virginia Jewish Reunions at the Marriott […]<\/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-28340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28340"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28750,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28340\/revisions\/28750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}