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To: buwaya

‘Bas mitzvah’ would generally identify one as from a more traditional Ashkenaz background where Yiddish was likely spoken at least at one time in the past.

‘Bat’ would indicate being more comfortable with modern Hebrew, or perhaps from a Sefardi background.

The same breakout is sometimes evident in pronouncing something as common as Yis-rah-AYL vs. Yis-ROH-ul for Israel.


18 posted on 02/15/2015 10:40:32 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

Where I am is San Francisco, so the local Jews seem to be mainly Ashkenazi US types here for many generations, with a fair sprinkling of new immigrant Israelis.


19 posted on 02/15/2015 11:04:06 AM PST by buwaya
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