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Yiddish the language of my Soul
Why one of my missions is to make products in Yiddish.Whenever I make or sell a product with Yiddish on it, I think
of my father Karl Oser (Tenenberg).He came from a small town in Poland called Bendin, south of
Krakow. I understand that half the town was Jewish. Naturally they spoke
Yiddish, after the horrors of the death camps and the war, my parents migrated
to Sydney Australia. I spoke Yiddish with my Father and Hungarian to my mother.
My mother was of Sepharidc extraction and she spoke
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11th May 2020
Why making products with Yiddish moves me so deeply
I have never been interested in making pretty products that sit on the sideboard. Each product I make has a story and comes from my Kishkes - gut. I love making products with YiddishIn our family, a typical Jewish family, lots of languages flew around the kitchen table. I spoke to my mother in Hungarian to my father in Yiddish, my parents spoke German together, my mother spoke Ladino to her mother and when my parents didn't want us to understand them, my mother spoke in Serbian and was answered
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5th May 2016