Bemused–I was NOT making a joke, nor am I young. A number of those Nefashot in Europe were my realtives, whom I never had a chance to meet.
My comment was about making Eastern Eruope a place to be idealized-swhich is something that I will never undeerstand. It is certainly not people of my hashkafa who look back to Poland, Lithuania, the Ukraine, and Hungary with nostalgia–nor do I beleive that the language spoken there is anything to be idealized.
If you don’t like it that I find the use of such words as “taleisim” amusing–well, too bad.