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Jewish Jokes and Jewish Jesters
' By Heinrich Loewe,
vision a. (River to Grand lilted. general headquarters will be at the Fund system was inaugurated, raised
CAMPAIGN FOR
Among others on his committee are Ik‘troit Board of Commerce, with
Walter Fuchs and Harry Z. Brown,
Tracy W. McGregor, general campaign
chairman, and the fund's executive
David A. Brown is vice-chairman of
committee In charge.
Division C (Woodward Avenue to
CHARITY BUDGET
TO START NOV. 15
On one occasion Efrayim Greidi-
A very hungry Jew in Koenigsberg
kir was called upon to act as a sec- visits a restaurant, partakes of a meal,
ond in a duel.
but is not satisfied. He eats at a sec- Total of $2,560,000 Asked For Laical
A Polish nobleman had challenged ond restaurant and a third with the
Relief; $89,000 for Detroit
a peasant and accorded him the right sane result. Finally, at the fourth
Jewish Causes.
to choose the weapons. The peasant, dining place he has the feeling of hav-
afraid to fight, was quite willing to ing enough."( should have come here
Plans are nearly complete fur the
apologize, but the nobleman insisted at first. Here I would at once have
upon the combat. In great despair obtained sufficient food. This is a third annual financial campaign of the
and .greatly. frightened, the peasant good restaurant."
Detroit Community Fund, Nov. 15 to
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begged larayim's advice and assist-
22, to raise $2,560,000 for the sick, the
A parallel to this Jewish fool is orphaned, the deserted, the aged, the
)ince. The latter advised him to in-
form his opponent that he accepted found in the case of a Russian peas- dependent, the unfortunate and unpro.
the challenge and would fetch along ant who, very hungry, enters a tected of Detroit and its outlying die
the chosen weapons.
bakery 31111 buys a large roll. After triets and for the starving people of
On the day selected he appeared, devouring five more his appetite is
central Europe.
bringing, as suggested by Efrayini, still unsatisfied, and he eats a pretzel. eastern and
Of this $79,859 is to he turned over
two thrashing flails. Seeing these the Then his desire for food is satisfied
United
Jewish Charities and
nobleman exclaimed: "My ancestors and he explains, "I should have eaten to the
knew all sorts of weapons, and I've the pretzel at first, for then I need not 89,221.71 to the Jewish Fresh Air Su-
been taught.the use of rapiers, swords have wasted my money on all those dety which maintains a summer camp
paid florets, but how to fight with cakes."
at the Grosse Pointe Shore Line.
flails I certainly do not understand."
The city and environs have been
Tice ignorance of the world and its divided Into four main divisions. The
'the duel never took place.
ways often shown by profoundly
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four division chairmen will combine
Efrayim was an historical and not learned rabbis frequently makes them to canvass the downtown districta.
a mythical personage. Ile called him- easy victims of the jester or the wag. Each division is divided Into districts
self a traveling rabbi, resembling They know no "ziras matbric" (the and sub-districts with majors, cap-
somewhat the wandering apprentices value of money). Such is their inno-
tains and lieutenants In charge. A
of the middle ages. In many traits he cence and their ignorance. A Chas-
suggests the strolling "chnorrer," sidic rabbi in Sadagura is told that large majority of these workers have
Reb
Chaijim,
one
of
his
former
dis-
already
started to outline their dis-
who in the little towns of Germany,
served the Jews as journals and comic ciples, who lives in Vienna, has alto- tricts in order that when the campaign
gether
abandoned
true
Jcwisliness.
starts, Nov. 15, there will be no delay
papers. The term "schnorrcr" is de-
rived from the German word "schnur- t he rabbi smiles skeptically. But an- In the canvass.
rem' signifying jokes or pranks. other friend informs him that with his • Julian 11. Krolik Is chairman of Di-
F.frayim's real calling was that of a own eyes lie has seen how Reb Chai-
'ffiadchen" (ballad singer). As the jun's shop was open on the Sabbath.
"I'll say this," replied the sage,
pertitaitentemlsodimentof
Jewish wit.
,
!lie is known only in Poland, particu- calmly _smiling, "Itch Chaijun may
have
become an unbeliever. I am not
larly Russian Poland, though almost
sure of that, but lie has always been a
unknown in Russia proper.
sensible
man. Do you suppose he is
Ile kept on joking almost up to
store open
:the day of his death. During his last stupid enough to keep hit
on
Schabbes?
Why should lie/ He
illness he directed that before he died
a wormy plum should be placed into is not allowed to sell anything on
his mouth. Told that such fruit was Schabbes."
"treife" he replied: "I Have coin-
At synagogue weddings it is the
eMliftill'Mahy sins in the•course of my
'life, but have never eaten a wormy custom for the bridal couple under
!plum. But when on the other side. the chuppe to look towards the East.
. my sins are punished and they begin But one day in a small Polish town it
to count them up and beat me accord- happened that bride and groom stood
ingly there will be no end to the so that they faced directly "marew"
beating. But when I hear them say (the West) instead of "misrach"
'a wormy plum' I shall know that the (East.
flue was a predicament. The
thrashing is at an end."
posts of the chuppe Were moved
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towards the right and then towards
On one occasion Mottke Chabad the left. The bearers changed their
was visiting a wealthy gentleman of places, but that did not improve
%Vilna. While leaving the house he things. The couple faced the \Vest,
stumbled and fell down the stairs,
and the wedding could not be solemn-
l"What has happened?" was the cry
ized. When there seemed no way
heard from all aides.
out of the difficulty a spectator, evi-
"Nothing," answered MaiLICC, "only
dently a stranger, surveyed the scene
my fur coat fell downstairs:"
and turned bride and groom right
That couldn't have made all that
about, All were highly pleased, the
noise; what caused the racket?"
ceremony proceeded and the wedding
' "That," replied Moltke, "was be-
was joyously celebrated. Then the
cause inside of the coat was my body."
stranger, who had been cordially in-
vited to remain, was asked how such
A somewhat similar observation
a bright idea occurred to him. He
was that made by the Jewish wit, who
answered that in \Varsaw no other
was reciting the "Schul Gantlet (the
method was known. "He is a War-
' blessing for having one's life saved).
sawed" was the exclamation heard
",What happened to you?" a num-
on all sides, "naturally a \Varsawcr.
! her of people asked hint.
Only a man from \Varsaw could have
"Today, after synagogue, I had to
had the 'chochine (cleverness) and
cross the little bridge over the stream.
First thing you know I heard a loud the 'chubpe' (impudence)."
Grallot avenue). Ile Is also serving
on the Industrial Giver's Division.
Derry P. Breitenbaeh is chairman of
the Educational Publicity Division,
conducted
the direction of the
Club,
The outstanding feature of the pub-
licity program this year will be a civic
exhibit in the main corridor of the
city hall from Nov. 8 to 22, to which
the general public is invited. Every
I) ye of work being done the agencies
supported by the Community Fund,
During the next few days meetings
During
will be visualized for the public) by
will be held in all parts of the city,
at which speakers with a thorough
knowledge of the Community Fund
system of financing the serial agen-
cies will explain its workings. Mon-
Mg pictures and lantern slides will
also be utilized to bring home to the
public the needs of the city along
charitable, philanthropic and civic
linen. The purpose of these meetings
is to emphasize tho fact that social
service work Is a community problem,
requiring the financial and moral sup-
port of the citizens generally. In
keeping with this same policy', there
will be 40 ■ Batrict headquarters In-
stead of but one general headquarters
Its has been the custom In previous
campaign'', and the 4.000 volunteer
workers will report to their district
headquarters daily Instead of being
forced to spend the time to go down-
town each noon .o give their reports
and receive further instructions. The
means of photographs, moving plc.
tures and demonstrations. Special
features will be on the program every
night. Many of the agencies are to
have live exhibits. More than 200,000
visitors are expected.
SCHWEYER PROTECTS JEWS.
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healthful recreation and educational ; Anshe Sholem congregation, of Chi-
cago, a union of the former "NI ariom-
opportunities.
pol" and "Kalvereire" congregations.
Moro than 70 appeals will be merg- He will receive $4,500 a year. The
ed into one in the campaign this Rabbi 7.. Glick was also granted a
year. The local agencies, before the substantial increase in salary.
Sate
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Nearly 150,000 men, women and
children of Detroit and Wayne Coun-
ty were served during the past year
by the agencies of the Fund. They
were the community's orphans and de-
serted children, its friendless old peo-
ple, its sick, Its crippled, its blind, its
distressed families thrown overnight
into dependency by unexpected mis-
fortune, Its new neighbors unused
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growing boys and girls hungry for' Saul Silber, spiritual leader of the
Unusual
BLOODLESS POGROMS,
their money separately through char-
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WARSAW.—The government b t.
days, organized appeals and paid so-
licitors. The Community Fund does gar to enforce a law passed recently
against
so-called "aliens" who cannot
away with these, thus saving much
prove that they have bet a burn is
time, energy, worry, expense and du-
Poland. The law is aimed at Je ws
plication of effort.
and many families have r•teived ,
as
murder to leave the country within
three days. Some of the I .
.milies ex-
pelled from \Varsaw have limed here
over thirty years and have children
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beente latest nedourse the
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dof ga tbv,
ceived a letter from Lord Curzon that
Poland to g
in future all cases of the ill-treatment lews by bloodless pogroms.
of Jews should be taken up with the
League of Nations and not with the
British Foreign Office. Thereupon,
Lucien Wolf, secretary of the Joint
WARSAW.— Your corri.,1,ntleai
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League of Nations with regard to the has learned from reliable sour,
the
Polish Socialist parte
ill-treatment of Jews in Poland, but
was informed that the League has at bring in a resolution in the Diet c
ing
for
an amnesty for political ,r
present no machinery to deal with
such emergency cases and Lucien oilers There is apparently a daq ,
Wolf went hack to the Foreign Office ence of opinion in government circles
concerning the expediency of such i
asking for England's protection.
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