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The illustrious Cohen Klein family hails from Hungary (and probably other places in Eastern Europe). I don't know enough about them, except for the following:
1. They are all kind of quiet and suffer from "Kleining out" -- a condition in which you can address one of them in perfectly intelligent English, only to be answered by a blank stare and a declaration of "Huh?". Occasionaly there may be a more lucid (though unrelted)response such as "what did the Mets do last night?"
2. My grandmother Miriam, bless her soul, who hailed from the town of Kolichvar, claimed that her family "was royalty". I somehow doubt that (we had no family jewels) but the woman sure made a mean apple pie and the best cholent on the planet.
3. My zeida, Pinchas was famous for entering a house of one of his family members with the singsong exclamation of "how do you do, how are you?". His children weren't too crazy about him from what I understand, but hey -- they all stare into space as we established , so what the hell do they know? His grandchildren all loved him.
Enough for now. For all its weirdness, this family is probably no more crazy than most Jewish post-war families, so keep your criticisms to yourself.
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