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  1. Philip Teitelbaum's taped recollections









Philip Teitelbaum's taped recollections (Summer 2007)

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Peter: OK, we're talking then about Cohen....which Cohen is this?

Philip: This is a Cohen that lived next door to us at 6609 Papineau.

Peter: And his job was....

Philip: Well, he had a booming voice, sometimes I believe that he used to use it actually in the
	shul, in the Red Shul. The work he would do.....He had a horse and a wagon and he would go
	in the different....up and down the lanes. The chant that he did constantly "Shal de g'ni
	a vendre, Shal de g'ni a vendre". I knew shal, he meant "sal", dirty. G'ni...I kind of had
	a feeling it was rags or something like that. I just looked it up in the dictionary and it
	is rags, old rags. FOr sale.

Peter: Really?

Philip: So women would come out and they would sell him things, at other places he would just pick up
	things that were in the lane. I remember when we came back and we had a very good day, he would
	say "Teitelbaum, di bist a glicklicher". It means I was good luck for him.

Peter: You weant with him?

Philip: Yeah.

Peter: Lots of time

Phil: No not often.

Peter: What did he do with these rags

Philip: There was a place where he would sell them, and there was something....it had to do with, people
	had these scrap yards. There's a place that they would buy rags and all kinds of stuff he would
	pick up in the lane.

Peter: Did he have kids?

Philip: He had two kids. The older kid, her name was Minnie

Peter: Oh, is she the Minnie from the train, from the "rumble"

Philip: No, not the Minnie from the "rumble", This Minnie had a bum leg and she could hardly walk and she
	was very fat. 	I remember that leg being in a cast a lot of the time. And they had a son. I think
	the son's name is Achiel but I'm not sure.




Pearl Nebach Maritzer tells me there was a Cohen named Dave who was a peddler and lived on Marquette.
I heard too that he sung with his booming voice in the shul.












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