Re: CHAT: cross-culturation

Weiben Wang <weibenw@...> wrote:

> The local Ukrainian eateries (in New York City), and
> Polish too IIRC, serve challah, and there's no reason
> they couldn't put ham and cheese on it.  Perhaps it's
> an Eastern European thing turned Ashkenazi?
>
> I just confirmed with our resident Ukrainian here at
> the office that challah is quite an ordinary thing
> among non-Jewish Ukrainians, and is often eaten around
> Christmastime.  He didn't know if it was a Jewish
> thing adopted by Ukrainians, or vice versa.
Well, it took me some time to recognize the word but I know it as a
demunitive term <chal~ka> used for a kind of sweet bread. Here in Poland
it's also quite an ordinary thing and you can buy it with other kinds of
bread almost everywhere, I think. My dictionaries defines the word as of
Jewish etymology and there is nothing about eggs - "elongated, plaited wheat
roll(? - <bul~ka> - anyway, white bread), often sweet". The non-demunitive
word is commonly used in colloquial speech to say sth (a film or book) is a
trash. No comments.

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Lukasz K.



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