Zeidi

I am acutely aware that had it not been for my father and my maternal Zeidi, who made decisions to come to the United States, I would[…]

Zvi Kress—Zeidi, as his four grandchildren affectionately called him from the Yiddish—and to my father, Nathan Schwartz.

Zeidi was the undisputed leader of the family, a chicken butcher by day, a Torah scholar by night, a saint by apocryphal family history. Zeidi isn't a name, by the way. Zeidi is just the Yiddish word for “grandfather[…]