PIEDentorj;/Ewismg RON ICLE PAGE TEN 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 • • • 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 • • • 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 ♦ • ♦ 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. YOU MUST THINK "Racine" Winter Tops NOW SAVES HALF I SOCIALISTS WANT AMNESTY 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. 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Looking down i towards the banks, I saw a wash- • woman testily beating my shirt with MUNICH.—The Bavarian minister, , clause stick. Luckily, I did not have the shirt on. If I had, she would Schweyer, has issued an order to the have beaten me to death—or broken local police to stop anti-Jewish dem- ntyt legs and arms at the very least." onstrations of every nature. LEAGUE NOT EQUIPPED. 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 to American ways and thousands of ministry has been awarded to Rabbi growing boys and girls hungry for' Saul Silber, spiritual leader of the Unusual BLOODLESS POGROMS, their money separately through char- ity balls, bazaars, ticket sales, tag 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 LONDON. — The Joint Foreign serving in the Polish arms. It seem ' beente latest nedourse the Committee of British Jewry has re- to m 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. 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