“Best Hebrew boy”
Zoe told me recently that a friend at camp calls her grandma Bubbe (the Yiddish term for grandmother), which prompted a discussion of different ways to say grandparents. After I told her that the Hebrew word for grandpa is Sabba, she commented, “I thought you didn’t know Hebrew.” I know a few words, I said, to which she responded, “But Daddy is the best Hebrew boy in the world. And Safta is the best Hebrew girl.” And then, after a brief silence, “And Uncle Gil, too.”
-M