that King Ferdinand of Bulgaria was the only king to speak Yiddish!
and Hereditary Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, described as heir presumptive to the Dutch throne, is "immensely wealthy." He has a "million invested in a bank," and also owns a slaughter house ... and sells his meat. I am not sure this means that the heir to the Saxe-Weimar grand duchy, actually set up a meat pie stand outside the schloss ... or to local butchers ... I expect the latter.
These toasty tidbits were reported in the Chicago Tribune, July 30, 1907 ...
Interesting! Where on earth did Ferdinand learn Yiddish? And why? Somehow, I cannot imagine Ferdinand visiting many ghettos, and I would have thought any Jews he met were likely to be upper-class and wealthy, and more conversant withh German, French and English than Yiddish.
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Just reporting what I read .... :)
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ReplyDeleteis there a biography on Ferdiand?
I have tons of books on Maria, Carol and Michael, even one of Carl but non on Ferdindand
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Cabri
Foxy Ferdinand by Stephen Constant. Published 1979. Are you in Belgium?
ReplyDeleteoh sorry I was talking about Ferdiannd of Romania... got mixed up?
ReplyDeleteNot in English, that I know about.
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