Eva Shaibe Rockman

In his last days, my father asked for Yiddish music 

My father, Mac (also called Moniek or Moshe) Shaibe was born in Lodz in 1922. He spoke Yiddish to his mother but he studied in a Hebrew day school and spoke Polish with the Poles. My mother, who was a Bundist and spoke a beautiful Yiddish, often made fun of my father’s Yiddish. She claimed…