[78-L] Benny Goodman^

[David Lennick]

> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2016 15:34:04 +0100
> From: julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk.invalid
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Benny Goodman^
> 
> 
> 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
> ==============================
> I guess "The Benny Goodman Story" didn't provide the answer?
> 
>       Julian Vein

"Goodbye" ain't a Hebraic chant? (Wait a minute, that was written by that Uber Jew Gordon Jenkins. Well, Sinatra said Jenkins SHOULD have been Jewish. Where are we going with this?)

dl
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