Polish Joke

Listen to words and phrases from the play Polish Joke, by David Ives. The Latin is read by Jennifer Allton, the Polish by Eva Grebowicz, and the Yiddish by Dr. Sidney Berger. The recording is courtesy of IDEA Associate Editor Jim Johnson.

Ave atque ingredere
bardzo dobrze
Bloshchik
Boze
Casimir
do widzenia
dobrze
doopa
drachma
dzien dobry
Etruscans
fakockteh (full of crap)
Florian Kozwoofski
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit
Gorecki
Gratia tibi, Pater (thank you, father)
Herbert
Jak sie masz
Jan Bogdan Sadlowski
Jan Bogdan Sodwoofski
Jasiu
John Sadlauski
kielbasa
Kochanowski
Ladislaw Sadlowski
Lutoslawski
Magda Kotchmarek
Mickiewicz
Milosz
“moriensque nihil mihi reliquit praeter aquas”
Na zdrowie
Okholera
Olga Welma Wanda Josefina Wilkomirska
“Pauper et ipse fuit”
Penderecki
prosze
Pshibillchik
Shalom
Shishlayvitch
Shostakovich
shpilkis (junk, crap)spotch
Stasiu
Stendhal
Stepan Veetkovski
swatkeh
Szymanowski
Szymborska
Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko
Thaddeus Kosciuszko
Tolaydo
Warsaw
Wiedersehen
Wittgenstein
Wojtek
Woodge (Lodz)
Yodviga Pshibillchik
Zawsha
Tadeusz monologue by Krakow Male