homentashen--(message #1)

[Mark A Mandel]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Gerald Cohen wrote:

#   Here are two references to homentashen:
#
#1) Nathan Süsskind: "Purim pastry homentashen: Why Haman's pockets?"
#    _Comments on Etymology_, vol. 18, no. 8, May 1989,
        [...]

What wonderful memories this brought back. Nathan Su"sskind was my
German teacher at CCNY, and a lively and warm and learned soul he was!

-- Mark A. Mandel