Zeda

The old men who came to our door I was taught to call "Zeda," or grandfather, and the old women I called "Babba," or grandmother, and to them I always gave a double share.

... grandfather often told me stories about his life in Kiev. I would sit at the kitchen table with Zeda, as I called him (Yiddish for grandpa), sipping hot tea from a saucer and sucking on a cube of sugar.