Yenta from Telebenta
MELO...@aol.com
jewi...@lyris.jewishgen.org writes:
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My wife came up with a new saying to me-"Yenta from Telebenta". I looked up
Telabenta in Shtetl Seeker and couldn't find it. Does anyone know the
derivation of this saying?
Mervyn Lakin MD
me...@home.com >>
That's Yenta Telabende written be Jacob Adler. Pen Name: B. Kovner, wrote for
the Forward (Jewish Newspaper). Yenta Telebende was a famous character in
this newspaper (about a henpecking wife and a henpecked husband) invented by
this humorous writer. Mentioned in "World of our Fathers" by Irving Howe.
Page 529.
A reference is also made in Leo Rosten's "The Joys of Yiddish" page 429 under
the heading Yenta, Yente.
Info from letter dated 2/25/96 from Allen Rubin: "My grandfather Jacob Adler,
died at the age of 103 and was married for 75 years to Celia Adler.
Allen Rubin is married to my cousin Joan Oshins Rubin.
Mel Oshins in La Quinta, CA
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