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A
Jewish mother wrote to the Jewish Daily Forward about her daughter:
During
the few years she was here without us she became a regular Yankee
and forgot how to talk Yiddish....She says it is not nice to talk
Yiddish and that I am a greenhorn....She wants to make a Christian
woman out of me. She does not like me to light the Sabbath candles,
to observe the Sabbath. When I light the candles, she blows them
out. Once I saw her standing on the stoop with a boy so I went
up to her and asked her when she would come up.... She did not
reply, and later when she came up she screamed at me because I
had called her by her Jewish name. But I cannot call her differently.
I cannot call her by her new name.
Source:
Robert Parks and Herbert Miller, Old World Traits Transplanted
(New York, 1921), 63-64
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