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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legs! Chronicle
December 24, 1943
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LITTLE GRANNY
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When they arrived in court,
if to gather strength. To her- her kind, small hands. "God will
they found themselves in a large
have
committed
help.
God
will
not
forget
us,
my
self she said, "I
room crowded with many people.
(low she slowly entered her clean no crime. What can this mean?" children." Thus she came to be
Some sat on benches, others lean-
kitchen and took clown an old went Mrs. Berman then picked up her known as "Little Granny."
Mrs. Cohen could not now give ed on wooden rails. How different
shopping bag from behind the bag and slowly descended a flight
it was from the brilliantly illu-
door. Her movements were me- of stairs to neighbor Cohen's light to the troubled one. And
she did not attempt it. Granny minated synagogue with its blue
chanical and labored. They were apartment.
When Mrs. Cohen opened the kept mumbling, "For shame, at and yellow walls. Looking around
the movements of an old body
door,
she found a trembling old my age, in court with criminals. the room, Granny's eyes fell upon
for the silence and rest of the
lady whose eyes betrayed a great But the good Lord will help me. a painting of George Washington.
grave.
She wondered, "Who can this fine
Today was another Friday in inner disturbance. The only clash He will show the way."
"Little Granny, it's time to go looking young man be?" Then she
a long parade of Fridays, but she had ever known was the one
noticed the magistrate sitting be-
When her husband was alive that of bargaining with a pushcart to court."
"But today is Friday," cried hind a long, wide table.
old black bag was down from its owner. The younger woman soon
"Mrs. Berman," a court attend-
nail long before the sun dispelled learned the reason for the Fri- Grandmother Berman." "Suppose
ant shouted. Mrs. Cohen spoke
they
put
me
in
jail?
Shabbas
in
(lay
visit.
the night. Life had a different
softly. "Little Granny, come now;
"I can't make it out," Mrs. Ber- jail. No, I cannot go."
meaning then. It had salt and
After much effort, the younger don't be frightened, Little Gran-
tears and laughter. Friday was a man uttered. "It's nothing, Little
ny." The old lady followed Mrs.
day of preparations for the Sab- Granny," consoled Mrs. Cohen. woman made plain that it was
bath. It was the glorious end to "Don't be frightened. You have necessary to appear in court. Cohen to the proper place. She
which one's labors were directed only kept some food on your fire Grandmother protested a great still grasped the paper bag as
after the struggles of the week. escape. And that is a small of- deal. Finally she yielded. She said if it were the most precious treas-
One lived, as it were, for the fense. You must go to court. But she had something to arrange in
See GRANNY—Page 14
Sabbath, that clay of refuge from everything will turn out for the her rooms; she would be ready to
Little leave in about ten minutes.
yourself,
Calm
troubles, that day on which one best.
Several minutes later, Granny
Granny "
rested and felt aching limbs.
Grandmother Berman raised her met Mrs. Cohen on the stoop of
Old Mrs. Berman, known as
Little Granny to her neighbors voice. But I have always kept the building. The old lady's head
Sincere Chanukah Greetings!
was covered with a new white
and friends (she never had any food there."
It
was
useless
to
explain
to
an
silken
shawl
and
she
had
changed
children), was about to leave her
rooms, inhabited by her for over old woman that no violation was her old sweater for a dress worn
thirty years, when the doorbell too small to escape prosecution. especially for holiday. She held
Hammerstein's
rang. She wondered, "Who could It was still more difficult to show a paper bag. Mrs. Cohen did not
it be?" Friday morning was surely why a habit that had persisted notice this. Today was Friday.
Drugs
no time fur visitors. for over thirty years was wrong Work had to be done. The floors
She shuffled to the door. A tall, in the eyes of the law. What did were as yet not scrubbed. Soon
red-faced man in a blue uniform that good soul know about courts the children would be home from
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looked down on a woman whose and laws? In Europe she had lived school. Yes, indeed, so much
small gray head was shrouded in in a small peasant village. When was still to be done. In her ex-
a white shawl. "Are you Mrs. she came to New York with her treme haste she almost carried
Berman?" he asked. She did not husband, she continued to "live the old woman to a taxi. The
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understand English, but when she according to the traditions of her pushcart peddlers and chattering
heard "Berman" she nodded her people. Grandmother Berman women were very much surprised
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little head and a strange light moved, or lived, as it were, in to see "Little Granny" and Mrs.
tilled her eyes. She knew him to be her synagogue, on the street pop-
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a policeman and wondered what ulated with pushcars, and in her Cohen whiz by in a taxi, with a
sky view top, too.
and brought him to her apartment. (lark rooms.
She heard of Brooklyn and the
But she had nothing to fear. She
had done no wrong. Nevertheless, Bronx, but never did she board
that towering giant caused a a train to visit either place, nevet
GREETINGS OF THE SEASON
shiver to pass through her old did she put her foot in an auto-
mobile or a street car. Yet the
shriveled body.
He handed her a document; he, entire ghetto knew of her kind-
an arm of the law, was perform- ness. Every social institution
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ing a duty. That she did not nailed its charity box on her
Draperies.
Slip Covers, Re-Upholstering, Good Furniture
kitchen
walls
and
at
the
end
of
know English was no concern of
Estimates Freely Given
a certain period of time, they
his. So he continued:
"You agree to appear in court would be filled ready to aid the
Good Taste Need Not Be Expensive
today for violating a tire depart- poor. Friday afternoons beggars
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ment regulation. You kept food would come to get their baskets
on your fire escape. Be sure to filled with fish and white bread.
God had never blessed her with
be there."
Grandmother began to feel any children, so she had taken
upon herself to console the hun-
We Are Pleased to Extend to Our Many Jewish
faint. She dropped her bag and gry and the weak with food from
Friends and Patrons Greetings for a
leaned against the dirty wall as
By HERMAN BAKER
High up from a tenement win-
dow, between white curtains, a
round, wrinkled face looked out
upon a narrow street lined with
pushcarts. It was a face that re-
sembled a mass of dry day that
had been cracked with excessive
heat. Little dry canals seemed
to run on that burnt surface. Mrs.
Berman sighed as she gazed down
on the clamor and movement of
the street, on other old women
who held black bags or baskets
tilled with provisions.
They, she thought, had small
grandchildren who would sit
around the table Friday evening
and chatter like monkeys, or per-
haps a husband with long white
beard who would pour the wine
and chant ancient hymns and say
the old blessings. Leaving the win-
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