#yiddish — Public Fediverse posts
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salute to Arun Viswanath for this excellent catalogue he made of his great-grandmother Lifshe Schaechter-Widman's Yiddish song recordings
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bZOh9sLMlOW5cnRa6RUM9uQ6SlYgr3fYgruRo-mtVyY/edit?usp=sharing -
You pick up sayings when you live around wise people.
"Az men iz a ganef, iz men a ganef."
If you're a thief, you're a thief.Seems to be the case with many of our politicians.
If I could end one thing to help humanity the most — I'd pick greed. It's the worst factor in the world today.
We have enough for all of us. But we store it away and pretend to be important. Amass wealth and fame. Surround yourself with people who tell you you're better than others.
We are all G-d”s children. Wealth of this world means nothing to Him. Sooner or later you answer for your treatment of others.
"Love thy neighbor."
Have you?
#Politics #Greed #Faith #Yiddish #LoveThyNeighbor #Humanity #Justice #Equality
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"What happened to #Yiddish #theater, how it came to be, why it faded and how it made a comeback are among the questions explored in “Immigrant Songs: #YiddishTheater and the #American #Jewish Experience,” a #documentary #directed by #JeffJaneczko.
The 46-minute documentary, the first produced by the #MilkenArchive of #JewishMusic (where #Janeczko is a curator), traces the remarkable legacy of Yiddish theater in #America — from its Eastern #European roots to its extraordinary modern revival. The #film blends #archivalfootage, original #music and scholarly insight to bring to life a cultural legacy that continues to resonate today.
You don’t need to be a Yiddish speaker or come from an #Ashkenazi background to appreciate the charm of Yiddish music and theater. The two, in fact, are deeply intertwined and have gone hand in hand since their birth in Eastern Europe."
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RE: https://klezmor.im/@carkner/115391163128803068
bumped into a lefty yiddish-interested friend at a party last nite who I haven't talked to in a few months and was rambling about how Montreal Jewish Public Library has a very fragile paper copy of this book and how wowed I was to see it 2 months back. 😍
#ethnomusicology #yiddish #Poland #warsaw #JewishMusic #JewishLaborBund #Bundism #FolkSongs
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as it's #BandcampFriday I bought these other two recent #klezmer albums I had been waiting for this occasion to buy as well.
Night Bird by my friend Rebecca Mac, violinist from the Boston area: https://borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album/night-bird
and Through The Walls, by British violinist Anna Lowenstein
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tickets have gone on sale for the event I've been working on preparing for a year, the Vancouver Peretz Centre's 80th anniversary banquet on May 23rd. I've been helping bring to life co-director Itamar's idea of a shtetl wedding themed gala, along with award-winning writer Jess Goldman and music arrangements by me🤓there are limited low cost tickets that will probably go fast if price is an issue.
https://www.peretz-centre.org/event-details-registration/peretzs-80th-anniversary-a-wedding-between-peretz-and-the-past-present-and-future#klezmer #Yiddish #SecularJewishCulture #shtetl #anniversary #Vancouver
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Kind of sad about Hampshire closing. I went to UMass.
"#HampshireCollege, the nontraditional #liberalarts #school that pioneered #college-level #Holocaust classes and played a central role in launching the acclaimed #Yiddish #Book Center, announced Tuesday that it is shutter at the end of the calendar year.
The closure, which follows semester after years of financial troubles, won’t affect #YiddishBookCenter, which operates on land purchased from the college in #Amherst, #Massachusetts.
“We are saddened by #Hampshire College’s announcement,” Susan Bronson, president of the Yiddish Book Center, said in a statement. “Hampshire has been a valued neighbor for many years, and we recognize the significance of this moment for its community.”
Founded by Hampshire alum #AaronLansky in 1980 as an effort to save Yiddish-language publications from extinction, the Yiddish Book Center purchased the land for its permanent #campus space from the college in 1997."
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Kind of sad about Hampshire closing. I went to UMass.
"#HampshireCollege, the nontraditional #liberalarts #school that pioneered #college-level #Holocaust classes and played a central role in launching the acclaimed #Yiddish #Book Center, announced Tuesday that it is shutter at the end of the calendar year.
The closure, which follows semester after years of financial troubles, won’t affect #YiddishBookCenter, which operates on land purchased from the college in #Amherst, #Massachusetts.
“We are saddened by #Hampshire College’s announcement,” Susan Bronson, president of the Yiddish Book Center, said in a statement. “Hampshire has been a valued neighbor for many years, and we recognize the significance of this moment for its community.”
Founded by Hampshire alum #AaronLansky in 1980 as an effort to save Yiddish-language publications from extinction, the Yiddish Book Center purchased the land for its permanent #campus space from the college in 1997."
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Kind of sad about Hampshire closing. I went to UMass.
"#HampshireCollege, the nontraditional #liberalarts #school that pioneered #college-level #Holocaust classes and played a central role in launching the acclaimed #Yiddish #Book Center, announced Tuesday that it is shutter at the end of the calendar year.
The closure, which follows semester after years of financial troubles, won’t affect #YiddishBookCenter, which operates on land purchased from the college in #Amherst, #Massachusetts.
“We are saddened by #Hampshire College’s announcement,” Susan Bronson, president of the Yiddish Book Center, said in a statement. “Hampshire has been a valued neighbor for many years, and we recognize the significance of this moment for its community.”
Founded by Hampshire alum #AaronLansky in 1980 as an effort to save Yiddish-language publications from extinction, the Yiddish Book Center purchased the land for its permanent #campus space from the college in 1997."
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Kind of sad about Hampshire closing. I went to UMass.
"#HampshireCollege, the nontraditional #liberalarts #school that pioneered #college-level #Holocaust classes and played a central role in launching the acclaimed #Yiddish #Book Center, announced Tuesday that it is shutter at the end of the calendar year.
The closure, which follows semester after years of financial troubles, won’t affect #YiddishBookCenter, which operates on land purchased from the college in #Amherst, #Massachusetts.
“We are saddened by #Hampshire College’s announcement,” Susan Bronson, president of the Yiddish Book Center, said in a statement. “Hampshire has been a valued neighbor for many years, and we recognize the significance of this moment for its community.”
Founded by Hampshire alum #AaronLansky in 1980 as an effort to save Yiddish-language publications from extinction, the Yiddish Book Center purchased the land for its permanent #campus space from the college in 1997."
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Kind of sad about Hampshire closing. I went to UMass.
"#HampshireCollege, the nontraditional #liberalarts #school that pioneered #college-level #Holocaust classes and played a central role in launching the acclaimed #Yiddish #Book Center, announced Tuesday that it is shutter at the end of the calendar year.
The closure, which follows semester after years of financial troubles, won’t affect #YiddishBookCenter, which operates on land purchased from the college in #Amherst, #Massachusetts.
“We are saddened by #Hampshire College’s announcement,” Susan Bronson, president of the Yiddish Book Center, said in a statement. “Hampshire has been a valued neighbor for many years, and we recognize the significance of this moment for its community.”
Founded by Hampshire alum #AaronLansky in 1980 as an effort to save Yiddish-language publications from extinction, the Yiddish Book Center purchased the land for its permanent #campus space from the college in 1997."
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My once and future collaborator Chaia is offering this 3-part online course:
"This class explores the tradition of Yiddish revolutionary folksong. Emerging from the revolutionary movements of early 20th century Eastern Europe, these songs carried the voices of workers and cultural activists who used them as tools of anti-fascist resistance, anti-Zionist organizing, and visions of Jewish communal identity."
https://www.judaismunbound.com/2026-courses/p/yiddish-revolutionary-song -
Been listening to this album on repeat while writing a review, and this track in particular is my fave. I would have believed Daniel Kahn wrote it himself, it's so on brand for him, but no: it's a translation of an equally funny 1963 German song by Georg Kreisler.
https://borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/track/ich-f-hl-mich-nicht-zu-hause-nit-heymish -
Vacances en famille du 20 au 26 avril prochains, autour des chansons #yiddish et danses et musiques #klezmer notamment animé par Marthe Desrosières, dans le (très chouette) château de Ligoure "près" de #Limoges #millevaches #plateaudemillevaches
Cours de yiddish et ateliers pour les enfants.
https://www.helloasso.com/associations/lamed/evenements/fun-dor-tsu-dor-2026
(je mets l'affiche pour le QR-code)
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Vacances en famille du 20 au 26 avril prochains, autour des chansons #yiddish et danses et musiques #klezmer notamment animé par Marthe Desrosières, dans le (très chouette) château de Ligoure "près" de #Limoges #millevaches #plateaudemillevaches
Cours de yiddish et ateliers pour les enfants.
https://www.helloasso.com/associations/lamed/evenements/fun-dor-tsu-dor-2026
(je mets l'affiche pour le QR-code)
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#Chance | The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the @Harvard University seeks to fill the position of a lecturer in Yiddish Studies | Details: https://www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachrichten/lecturer-in-yiddish-studies-harvard-university/
Deadline for applications: April 1, 2026
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"The usual perception of #Soviet #Jewish #literature after #WorldWarII is that there was none. The conversation around the decades after the #Holocaust usually focuses on the #refuseniks and large waves of emigration away from a place with a history of suppressing its Jewish minority.
A new collection of #translated #shortstories by Soviet #Jewishwriters, originally published in the #USSR in #Russian and — mind-blowingly — in #Yiddish, challenges that view. For someone who grew up in #Ukraine and #Russia not knowing much about my roots because my #Jewish grandfather remained silent on the subject of anything Jewish, I read “In the Shadow of the Holocaust” with a thirst I didn’t know I had.
In these 10 #stories by seven authors, Jewish survivors are dealing directly with the ruins of a world that is no more. Unlike their #American counterparts, however, they continue making a life in the proximity of the tragedy, among cemeteries and unmarked ravines."
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"A hundred years ago, there was a saying that you could travel anywhere on the globe and find someone who speaks #Yiddish. Today, there’s been a reversal — Yiddish enthusiasts pick a spot on the map and schlep across the world to find one another.
#BerKotlerman, Yiddish professor at #Israel’s #BarIlan #University, calls these aficionados “#Yiddishhunters,” and last week, from Feb. 9-16, over 70 of them gathered for a free advanced Yiddish Winter School in #ClujNapoca, #Romania, in the #Transylvania region, to immerse themselves in the language and culture they love, with every activity, from tours to lectures, taking place in Yiddish."
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"A hundred years ago, there was a saying that you could travel anywhere on the globe and find someone who speaks #Yiddish. Today, there’s been a reversal — Yiddish enthusiasts pick a spot on the map and schlep across the world to find one another.
#BerKotlerman, Yiddish professor at #Israel’s #BarIlan #University, calls these aficionados “#Yiddishhunters,” and last week, from Feb. 9-16, over 70 of them gathered for a free advanced Yiddish Winter School in #ClujNapoca, #Romania, in the #Transylvania region, to immerse themselves in the language and culture they love, with every activity, from tours to lectures, taking place in Yiddish."
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"A hundred years ago, there was a saying that you could travel anywhere on the globe and find someone who speaks #Yiddish. Today, there’s been a reversal — Yiddish enthusiasts pick a spot on the map and schlep across the world to find one another.
#BerKotlerman, Yiddish professor at #Israel’s #BarIlan #University, calls these aficionados “#Yiddishhunters,” and last week, from Feb. 9-16, over 70 of them gathered for a free advanced Yiddish Winter School in #ClujNapoca, #Romania, in the #Transylvania region, to immerse themselves in the language and culture they love, with every activity, from tours to lectures, taking place in Yiddish."
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"A hundred years ago, there was a saying that you could travel anywhere on the globe and find someone who speaks #Yiddish. Today, there’s been a reversal — Yiddish enthusiasts pick a spot on the map and schlep across the world to find one another.
#BerKotlerman, Yiddish professor at #Israel’s #BarIlan #University, calls these aficionados “#Yiddishhunters,” and last week, from Feb. 9-16, over 70 of them gathered for a free advanced Yiddish Winter School in #ClujNapoca, #Romania, in the #Transylvania region, to immerse themselves in the language and culture they love, with every activity, from tours to lectures, taking place in Yiddish."
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"A hundred years ago, there was a saying that you could travel anywhere on the globe and find someone who speaks #Yiddish. Today, there’s been a reversal — Yiddish enthusiasts pick a spot on the map and schlep across the world to find one another.
#BerKotlerman, Yiddish professor at #Israel’s #BarIlan #University, calls these aficionados “#Yiddishhunters,” and last week, from Feb. 9-16, over 70 of them gathered for a free advanced Yiddish Winter School in #ClujNapoca, #Romania, in the #Transylvania region, to immerse themselves in the language and culture they love, with every activity, from tours to lectures, taking place in Yiddish."
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"When the 1936 #Polish #Yiddish feature #AlKhet (I Have Sinned) screened at the #NewYork #Jewish #FilmFestival last month after a decades-long restoration process, seeing the #film was cause for celebration.
Hearing the soundtrack was my greatest joy. It was scored by one of my favorite Yiddish #composers, #HenokhKon, who created the #music for the 1937 film classic #TheDybbuk. In his heyday between the world wars, #Kon was already renowned as a prolific creator of catchy #songs and sophisticated multi-genre instrumental repertoire, even years before his first film commissions.
My ears perk up for Kon’s distinctive, eclectic sound textures (as well as ingenious folk-stylized #song repertoire) — from the iconic #dance sequences of The #Dybbuk, to angst-driven passages in the #Bundist quasi-#documentary #MirKumenOn (called Children Must Laugh in English), to darkly ironic background cues for the low-budget #FreylekheKabtsonim (Jolly Paupers).
I heard a signature..."
https://jewishpostandnews.ca/uncategorized/rediscovering-the-dybbuk-composer-henokh-kon/
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#Ressource | Call for submisisons for In geveb’s peer review, pedagogy, translation, and blog sections on Yiddish archives | Details: https://www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachrichten/special-issue-call-for-submissions-the-yiddish-archive/
#Yiddish #archive #research #memoirs #translations
Deadline for submission: March 6, 2026
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Nice article about my friend Ira's new album 😁 highlights of which were performed here at the Peretz Centre last month, to hollers from the queer youngsters and bemused smiles from many of the klezmer fan seniors 😅
https://www.jta.org/2025/12/24/ny/in-a-new-album-yiddish-becomes-a-language-of-queer-belonging -
... "tracing how folksong shaped Jewish life in Eastern Europe and how its meanings shifted through migration and memory. It also reflects on how the very act of interviewing contributed to the construction of the figure of the “Yiddish folksinger,” a powerful image that continues to shape how we understand Yiddish folksong today."
#FolkMusic #OnlineLecture #ethnomusicology #Yiddish #FolkSongs
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this is another one I couldn't miss, my friend Eve's lecture on Shirley Baron, a NYC drummer from WWII through the late 80s who I found ads for in my YIVO research this spring and we both became quite interested in. there's a whole oral history with her about being in a 1930s orphanage and becoming a restaurant musician during WWII etc. it says in-person on this poster but hybrid on the schedule so hopefully i'm good.
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this is another one I couldn't miss, my friend Eve's lecture on Shirley Baron, a NYC drummer from WWII through the late 80s who I found ads for in my YIVO research this spring and we both became quite interested in. there's a whole oral history with her about being in a 1930s orphanage and becoming a restaurant musician during WWII etc. it says in-person on this poster but hybrid on the schedule so hopefully i'm good.
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this is another one I couldn't miss, my friend Eve's lecture on Shirley Baron, a NYC drummer from WWII through the late 80s who I found ads for in my YIVO research this spring and we both became quite interested in. there's a whole oral history with her about being in a 1930s orphanage and becoming a restaurant musician during WWII etc. it says in-person on this poster but hybrid on the schedule so hopefully i'm good.
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this is another one I couldn't miss, my friend Eve's lecture on Shirley Baron, a NYC drummer from WWII through the late 80s who I found ads for in my YIVO research this spring and we both became quite interested in. there's a whole oral history with her about being in a 1930s orphanage and becoming a restaurant musician during WWII etc. it says in-person on this poster but hybrid on the schedule so hopefully i'm good.
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this is another one I couldn't miss, my friend Eve's lecture on Shirley Baron, a NYC drummer from WWII through the late 80s who I found ads for in my YIVO research this spring and we both became quite interested in. there's a whole oral history with her about being in a 1930s orphanage and becoming a restaurant musician during WWII etc. it says in-person on this poster but hybrid on the schedule so hopefully i'm good.
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If you're looking for something along the same lines, I'm a huge fan of this #Yiddish #AntifaAF #Folk classic performed by #PeteSeeger
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#Ressource | MLN invites submissions for an inaugural issue for a new biennial issue devoted to Jewish literatures | Details: https://www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachrichten/beschreibung-mln-yiddish-hebrew-john-hopkins-university-press/
#hebrew #yiddish #literature #culture
Deadline: March 1, 2026
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איך לייען איצט די תורה אויף פענסילוועניש דייטש. איך האב ליב נישט די אויסלייג פון די אמיש. זיי שרייבן דייטש ווי ענגליש!
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ביידע #יידיש און פענסילוועניש דייטש האבן צוויי אויסלייגן. די אמיש און די חסידים האבן איינס, און די אנדערע האבן א "נייער" אויסלייג.
צום ביישפיל:
איך קען שרייבען אף אידיש.
איך קען שרייבן אויף יידיש.און פאר פענסילוועניש דייטש:
Ich can oof Deitsch shriva.
Ich kann uff Deitsch schriwwe.ס'איז זייער שווער צו שרייבן "היימיש" יידיש און "היימיש" דייטש.
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teehee never seen klezmorim as two words in transliteration
(From a 1923 Kale Bazetsn skit by Gus Goldstein, Library of Congress https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zGR4wKG82xFQ6cDrrbHfMX8o_XUBEACw/view?usp=sharing )
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Josh Dolgin belatedly sent me this photo of me looking at the choral materials in his office at McGill. 😅it's me
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and an article (AFP) about Yiddish Summer Weimar #YSW
among other sites: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/food-soul-germanys-yiddish-revival-071623387.html"A push to revitalise Yiddish and its cultural traditions has gained momentum in Germany, the very place where the Nazi regime's Holocaust sought to eradicate the Jewish communities who spoke it.
Thousands flocked to the city of Weimar for a recent festival that celebrated the linguistic tradition with workshops, cabaret performances and even heart-stopping circus acrobatics.
Musical offerings ranged from traditional klezmer performances on violin and accordion evoking the Central Europe of old to more modern shows, including psychedelic Yiddish rock."
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‘Food For The Soul’: Germany’s Yiddish Revival
A push to revitalise Yiddish and its cultural traditions has gained momentum in Germany, the very place where the Nazi regime’s Holocaust sought to eradicate the Jewish communities who spoke it. The Barron’s news department was not involved in the creation of the content above. This arti…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #culture #germany #language #SYND #yiddish
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@libreleah Ja, das ist ein guter Weg fuer Deutsch lernen. Moses Monweal McCormick hat en Lot Sprache gelernt, und er hat das gemacht.
- Lern sich Phrasen und Woerter
- Lern sich die Grammatik
Auf wiedersehen, und redt Deutsch!
(Ja, mein Deutsch ist schlecht. Es ist ein Mischung von Jiddisch und Pennsylvanisch Deutsch.)
#Deutsch #German #Yiddish #PennsylvaniaDutch #LanguageLearning
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#OnlineEvent | Book talk with Miriam Udel on her recently published book Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature. She discusses how Yiddish children’s literature espoused various political ideologies and constituted a project of Jewish cultural nationalism before the Holocaust.
#Yiddish #Children'sLiterature #Secularism #Jews
Monday, October 27, 2025 | 12:00pm ET / 19:00pm CET | Registration required
Details: https://yivo.org/Worldmaking
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#OnlineEvent | “Disrupted Temporalities: Yiddish Travelogues Before and After the Khurbn” | GSLR, Paris | Details: https://www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachrichten/disrupted-temporalities-yiddish-travelogues-before-and-after-the-khurbn-paris/
#yiddish #shoah #literature #travelogueOctober 9, 2025 | 4:30 to 6:30pm (CET) | In Paris and online
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Learning #ChineseLanguage is quite fun. Especially once I started recognizing some words spoken and written in a few Chinese anime series we watch (#LinkClick, #ToBeHeroX and #LordOfTheMysteries). :blobfoxaww:
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Pris au piège
de Darren Aronofsky, 2025, **** Bud vit tranquillement dans le Lower East Side, chez Russ. Mais celui-ci repart en Angleterre pour voir son père malade, et Bud emménage temporairement chez son voisin de palier, Hank — un ancien joueur de base-ball californien, fan des Giants, barman et alcoolique. Dans la foulée, deux mafieux slaves venus chercher Russ tabassent Hank, heureusement sans trouver la clef : celle-ci est planquée dans la litière de Bud. Quoi, je vous avais pas dit que Bud […]
