How did you manage to survive all those terrible pogroms? Did your village matchmaker ever try to hook you up with some meydl? What sort of drugs was Moishe Shagal on when he painted all those crazy pictures?
Zayn oder nit zayn? Ot vos s'iz di frage.
Iz eydeler far’n gemit fertrogn shtil
Dem shlayder-shteyn (“slings”) un fayl (“arrows”)
fun beyzn mazl,
Tsi zikh bevafenen antkegn yam fun leyd
What, you were expecting English maybe?
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 31, 2019 2:35 AM |
"SO, how's the plague in Minsk?"
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 31, 2019 2:39 AM |
They really did eat bagels. I saw some old footage once.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 31, 2019 2:39 AM |
[quote]Eldergays, what was life in shtetls like?
NOT easy.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 31, 2019 2:40 AM |
Oy.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 31, 2019 2:41 AM |
I had some sheckls up my mussy which helped when things went sideways.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 31, 2019 2:47 AM |
Bagels, schmagels. You ever had a toasted bialy with butter?
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 31, 2019 2:52 AM |
I knew a meydl who bought gribenes from a mohel...And then she died.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 31, 2019 2:54 AM |
They were shitholes. That's why we migrated here.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 1, 2019 2:11 AM |
It's nice to have threads exclusively for New Yorkers.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 1, 2019 12:34 PM |
What's next bigoted cunts? What life was like as a slave in Mississippi? Can we hope for a rollicking thread about what life was like for gay Nazis butchering Jews in the Warsaw and Lviv Ghettos???
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 1, 2019 12:42 PM |
Yes meshugana R12, the tsuris in Mississippi was a shanda, but can we stick to OP’s topic, please?
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 1, 2019 12:49 PM |
Not the same outrage troll at R12. Read some Yiddish literature.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 1, 2019 12:51 PM |
Knew a guy who said he'd never live in the Chelsea. ... "It's a gay ghetto."
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 1, 2019 12:51 PM |
Is he a fagelah?
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | August 1, 2019 2:07 PM |
Is "shtetl" Yiddish for "shithole"?
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | August 1, 2019 2:25 PM |
Clothed man/naked man Torah readings were a sexy traditional pastime.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | August 1, 2019 2:45 PM |
There was a bitch named Yentl who never shut up.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | August 1, 2019 2:53 PM |
Vat did you say, OP? SPEAK UP ALREADY, I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | August 1, 2019 2:57 PM |
[Quote]There was a bitch named Yentl who never shut up.
How DARE you try to silence a trans ICON? This is LITERAL violence.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | August 1, 2019 5:35 PM |
It was poor, but there was always plenty of putz to play with.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 1, 2019 5:53 PM |
All of it cut.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | August 1, 2019 5:53 PM |
Avigdor,wait.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | August 1, 2019 5:55 PM |
We had a lot of great entertainment. Here is an excerpt from our Spring Musical.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | August 2, 2019 12:31 PM |
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | August 2, 2019 12:35 PM |
R25, if that drek is what you had, then of course you left.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | August 2, 2019 1:06 PM |
I got to suck a lot of putz but it was hard to get the cum stains out of my yarmulke.
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | August 2, 2019 3:30 PM |
It wasn't bad. I dated that Steve Gold's grandfather for a year before he moved to America. Biggest schvantz in Pinsk. And pretty.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | August 2, 2019 4:03 PM |
it was beyond the pale, living there
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | August 2, 2019 4:07 PM |
I was a total Slutsk!
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | August 2, 2019 6:13 PM |
Get with the pogram, bitches!
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | August 3, 2019 4:21 AM |