[78-L] Benny Goodman^

[Julian Vein]

On 26/06/16 13:55, Kristjan Saag wrote:
> Benny Goodman was the son of Jewish immigrants from Europe, his father
> from Warsaw, Poland, his mother from Kaunas, Lithuania, who met in the US.
> According to some biographic records Benny's mother never learned to
> speak or write English.
> But what was Benny's mother tongue? What did the family speak at home?
> Yiddish? English? Polish? Lithuanian? Russian? (Both Lithuania and
> Poland was under Russian rule at the time when Benny's parents grew up).
> I've searched the net without finding the answer. Anyone knows or wants
> to take a guess?
> Kristjan
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I guess "The Benny Goodman Story" didn't provide the answer?

      Julian Vein