Dear Barrie Karp,

"Nu" is Russian borrowed into Yiddish, but "nu, why" doesn't seem to me to make any sense in either Russian or in Yiddish. 

Carolyn Kunin


On Mar 17, 2008, at 8:28 PM, Barrie Karp wrote:

I can't stop associating New Wye with the Yiddish "nu, why?"
 
Has anyone else thought about this?  Would VN have been making a Jewish joke?  Did he make any other Jewish jokes?
 
Barrie Karp
NYC

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