Ni-be ni-me ni-kukeriku

Ni-be ni-me ni-kukeriku , oder, kamf tsvishn bildung un fanatizm is an 1878 operetta by Abraham Goldfaden. The title may be translated as Not Baa, Not Mee, Not Cock-a-Doodle-Doo. The title comes from a Slavic expression, Polish: ni be ni me ni kukuryku or Russian: ни бе, ни ме, ни кукареку, meaning "cannot or do not want to say anything on the subject". The play is lost. Lulla Rosenfeld in her commentary to Jacob Adler's memoir translates the title as Neither This, That, nor Kukerikoo, or The Struggle of Culture with Fanaticism. The play was first staged in Iași, Romania, in 1878.

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