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But Az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde!
Katie Halper: Top 10 Reasons to Stop the Blood Libel Schmear Campaign against Honorary Jew Sarah Palin Katie Halper 2011
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But Az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde!
Katie Halper: Top 10 Reasons to Stop the Blood Libel Schmear Campaign against Honorary Jew Sarah Palin Katie Halper 2011
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But Az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde!
Katie Halper: Top 10 Reasons to Stop the Blood Libel Schmear Campaign against Honorary Jew Sarah Palin Katie Halper 2011
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Also in La bobe, Berman addresses critical issues directly affecting her identity and that of her immediate family.
Sabina Berman. 2009
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In order to facilitate access to her semi-autobiographical work La bobe (Bubbeh, 1991), she provides translations and explanations of potentially unknown words in Yiddish.
Sabina Berman. 2009
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Your bobe and your zeide are eating the fish without you.
An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story Eliza Orzeszkowa 1876
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"At me, dear bobe," replied, from the opposite wall, a voice full of unspoken grief.
An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story Eliza Orzeszkowa 1876
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There she was confronted by a rabbi who told Cynthia’s bobe [grandmother], who had accompanied her granddaughter to school, in Yiddish, “Take her home; a girl doesn’t have to study.”
Cynthia Ozick. 2009
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La bobe also invites her female readership to revel in the celebration of a matriarch, Berman’s grandmother — a rare opportunity in a male-dominated society and canon.
Sabina Berman. 2009
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«frcfl7en«, tatti flujcbnice txoá, genj gl nď fyti bobe, mnohý* btcfyýfy 'ííhofí j barem ítwm
Žiwot cýsaře Karla čtwrtého: a krale cěského toho gména prwnjho Charles, Holy Roman Emperor Charles, Karl 1791
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