Avi K, please be more tolerant of our diversity – I was trying to reproduce his Galicianish .. And it is well known that Moshe Rabienu was Galician because the Torah starts with “buru”. Local Hungarians please correct me if I am wrong here
philosopher – it does sound like a sad story, but then also as a great story. this old man was earning for loshon kodesh all his life, and you should see how happy he was. Can you imagine keeping a dream alive for 60 years through Stalin/Hitler/etc.
I am just inconsistent speller, mostly a Litvak with some Ganzaic/Yakkish and also a Cantonist ..