And then we fell into an easy conversation. Upon my arrival, I was welcomed warmly into their well-worn Victorian house. Hamish, which means cozy and homey, is what Nancy and Penny’s home felt like as soon as I crossed their threshold. The way Nancy spoke-her sentence structure and cadence-immediately brought me back to happy afternoons spent with my grandma Ethel. I wasn’t surprised when she told me that she was born in 1935 in the same New York City hospital as my mother, who was born in 1931. Landsman is a word I heard my Eastern European grandparents use to describe a fellow Jew who came from the old country, someone who felt familiar because of shared roots. From Eric Marcus : Two Yiddish words come to mind when I think of the time I spent with Nancy Walker and her life partner, Penny, in December 1989: landsman and hamish.
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