My grandmother used to say that her husband was meschugge ( that was in former East Prussia in Germany at the Baltic Sea - about 1940), and my grandfather's reaction was just a deep laugh.....
Our family spoke "Hoch-Deutsch" only. We were pure Prussians. Meschugge is the only Yiddish word which was casually used in a funny sense.
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at November 15, 2019 6:38 AM MST
Some of mine came over early as well, but I had an uncle who grew up in Vienna. He was tipped off just in time and left the day before the Nazis occupied Austria in 1938.
Why are you telling this so openly? It makes you very close to being deported if Trump has his way. Unless you support him. And I am not really sure you don't. You like him far more than is good for you, that is for sure.