Dedicate Memorial to Martyrd Jews The Yiddish Curse, as Viewed by Sholem Aleichem —From Maurice Samuel's "The have taken Przemysl! We have "Pardon me, sir, have you also World of Sholom Aleichem". taken Kamenetz-Pocklsk! We have taken Ameesehmeshineh?" "No" answered the officer, haughtily, The Yiddish curse, particularly taken Radomysl! At last the Jew asked, timidly: "but we intend to take that too." as developed by the Kasrielevky ■111 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ market-woman, must be classified as a branch of Yiddish humor. It Best Wishes To All On The New Year was a pastime and a form of self- expression rather than an imple- ment—even theoretical—of war. A people physically disarmed takes refuge in dreams and words; where 14471 Livernois resentment cannot issue in action, ■ ■■ ■ ■ ■•■17,111■0■1•2 40/. 0-■ ■ it makes shift with the imagina- tion, and in the course of time the purely imaginative element tri- Best Wishes for a Happy New Year umphs over the emotion; the curse To Our Friends and Patrons becomes a dreamy exercise prac- Mr. and Mrs. Kalman Lustig of ticed for its own sake. The Yiddish curse was the do- main of women. They had not the man's learning to serve them- 12028 Dexter as escape; they had not so many TO 9-9826 prayers and other religious duties. In a sense; then, curse was a substitute; there is a close ety- Happy New Year mological relationship between "prayer" and "imprecation." The nearest approach to the curse for ingenuity, variety, vol- ume, complication and complete- Louis Dalitz ness is to be found in the medieval 9350 Roselawn WE 3-1850 Church anathema. But there is this difference: the Church curse makes your blood run cold, the Yiddish curse is downright funny. And it is funny because unlike the Happy NewYear to Our Relatives and Friends Church curse it does not believe, or pretend to believe. in its own potency. The greater its exuber- ance, the more striking its pathos. Wool and Cotton Rags It is the reductio ad absurdum of the curse. 1947 E. Kirby WA 3-6400 The phrase "unusual death" is of Hebrew origin, and the Kasriel- evky pronunciation is meeseh me- shineh. Actually the market-wo- Happy New Year man could not have said what meeseh meshineh meant, literally. A variant of the curse is: "May you take a meeseh meshineh"- 24200 Telegraph Rd. the word "take" being used here Between 9 and 10 Mile Roads in the same way as we use it in Southfield, Michigan 353-2100 English for "taking" a medicine. There is a story attached to "tak ing a meeseh meshineh." 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