Leben zol Columbus!
Oct 12, 2009 Americana
That’s the refrain of the old Yiddish song celebrating the New World — the land of Columbus (saved from revisionism here).
I had never quite understood why Columbus was named after a city in Ohio. I mean, the place is pretty much landlocked. But then I took Spanish and learned what I doofus I was — he was actually named after yogurt!
Or was it he was named after kishkes?
Either way it was evidently better than they had in the Old Country.








