Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0002524, Wed, 29 Oct 1997 11:45:33 -0800

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Botkin/Kinbote (fwd)
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Does everyone know that, in Yiddish, a "botkin" is a sort of "funmaker" who
travelled with a Klezmer band; a sort of yiddish version of the Joel Grey part
in "Cabaret?"

Sam

Samuel Schuman
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