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Weinreich's also take you 10 minutes to put it English-Yiddish Dictionary also may avek, so we are talking vegn five be useful. minutes of practice." He said, "The Following is this month's scraping sound tut vay my ears." lesson: His tone was that of a political I've never heard anyone zoyn prisoner undergoing physical, "happy nei year" without smiling. peiriikung. There is something zis about the Although I failed in my prospect of a new yor, like the objective, I look oyf the experience apples we dip in honik on that as a positive one. Such frayd as I occasion. knew, when I hob geklert I had I glayb that there is epes about reason tsu hope. Did I learn the word "new" that conjures up anything from it? No, hope springs images of hofenung. Hope strong eternal. I look at my ayniklech and genug to compensate for the pain of think "maybe." the velt and make life worth living. At new year we cholemen of neie satisfactions. As a Sunday school say zoyn teacher, I oft perceive the kinder as new nei new persons. The hope they sweet zis * brengen with them is boundless. year yor Efsher one of them will be president honey honik of the United States. No believe glayb consideration is given to the something epes mundane arbet of fund-raising, hope hofenung buying tseitung of TV ads, enough genug farmatishe trips and repititious world velt redes. But instead, there will be a dream cholemen burst of heavenly licht and Moisele new neie or Sarah would be arumegetrogen often oft in that light to the presidency. children kinder One of the shiler told me bring brengen confidently that she would be the perhaps efsher first Jewish woman richter on the task, work arbet United State Supreme Court. newspaper tseitung reality, in a vert the hope mol A tiring farmatishe mentsh still young enough to be speeches redes considered new. 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My hob gehat dem gedank fantazie immediately transported mir had the thought to a box seat in Carnegie Hall. very zayer I sat, veis-haired, slightly Dortn By MARY KORETZ Vocabulary great sent lessons imagination me there white pride tears way cheeks stage violin had fallen needed groys geshikt lektsies fantazie mir dortn veis shtolts trerm veg bakn bine fidl hot gefaln oysgefelt hor ayntsiker redn halb farnemen smitshik avek vegn tut vay peinikung oyf frayd hob geklert tsu ayniklech hair only talking half take bow away about hurts torture upon joy thought to grandchildren Famous Facts Q. Were any Jews with Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie at the Alamo? A. A number of Jews were among the Texan settlers that rose against the repressive rule of Mexican President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna in 1835. At least one, English born Antony Wolfe of Nagadoches, was with the illustrious company of about 183 frontiersmen that died fighting to the last man at the Alamo in March, 1836. Another Edward Isaac Johnson, was killed when Santa Anna massacred 300 Texans of Colonel James Fannin's command at Goliad, three weeks later. Three other Jews in Fannin's company escaped the slaughter. Surgeon Moses Levy of Richmond, Virginia, had led a company of 66 Americans to Texas. In a letter home, Levy credits himself along with Colonel Ben Milam of Kentucky, with organizing the assault which first captured the Alamo in December, 1835, after it seemed that the Texan force must disband for want of both equipment and spirit. Fewer than 300 Texans took San Antonio and the Alamo from 1,400 Mexicans under General Cos in five days of house to house fighting. Levy tended the wounded and fought too. He was later captured and escaped after several months in Mexican prisons. Compiled by Dr. Matthew Schwartz 0 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS L-5