# When Jews Sneeze...........

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 5, 2002, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-jews-sneeze/127065 "2002-09-05T01:50:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2002, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-jews-sneeze/127065/1 "2002-09-05T01:50:30Z")

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I was speaking with my best friend today, and I sneezed. She said, " God Bless You !! "- and then exclaimed that she was sorry to have said such, that she wasn’t sure what to say. I said, I grew up with Gedzundheit (sp?), since I’m 1/2 German.

She laughed and said, “That means ‘God Bless You’ in German”. I pondered this a bit, and said with great surety, " Well then, before Yiddish was invented, when a Jew sneezed…nobody said ANYTHING ! "

Is there a better Yiddish or Hebrew equivalent? I’m putting this here instead of in G.Q. because the companion issue is , of course, what do YOU say to people when they sneeze???

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