Dean Bandes

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Klezmer trumpet & baritone horn player, studying Yiddish on Duolingo. My grad school roommate was a real Bible scholar and I learned something back then.
More wisdom from Yiddish Duolingo
@guncelawits @kissane Gunce, what do you mean?
2/2 Sure enough, here’s the English.
I grabbed this screenshot from Yiddish Duolingo because I thought you’d want to see what was coming next (alt text has a transcription if you can’t read it) …
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I made a chocolate babka yesterday.
Between being on babka.social and how much babka figures in Yiddish Duolingo, I had to look up a recipe, roll up my sleeves, and roll up some dough.
Hi there! I'm on another instance as [email protected], apple grower (pippin is a wild apple tree) but the original name was Ignatz Pippik, which my mom used to call me when I was little. I use that account to follow gardening, nature study, cider, and beer. I ran into @jewwhohasitall on the Federated timeline, liked the posts on the "intro to Christmas for teachers" thread, and she invited me to come on over to Babka. Five days later, here I am to get some yiddishkeit.