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ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Q: Does the popular
phrase "he was bar mitz-
vahed" make any sense?
A: No.
in 1794. A brilliant
concert pianist on the
European continent,
in 1825 he moved to
London where he con-
Bar/bat mitzvah
tinued his career. In
translates literally to
1846, he accepted the
son/daughter of the
invitation of his friend,
commandment and is a
Felix Mendelssohn, to
term referring to the
9111 %
become piano teacher
changed status of a boy
at the Leipzig Con-
or girl to adulthood. He
servatory.
or she is now obligated Getting "adulted."
Moscheles, who
to all commandments
composed about 150 pieces
in the Torah.
Traditionally, there is no spe- (rarely heard today), also was
cial bar or bat mitzvah ceremo- friendly with Ludwig van
ny. In many congregations, Beethoven, a fellow student of
however, the youth receives an Salieri. He wrote a piano-vocal
aliyah to the Torah and may lead score of Fidelio and translated
parts of the service and deliver a into English Anton Schindler's
speech. But whether one has a biography of Beethoven.
Moscheles died in Leipzig in
ceremony makes no difference.
A male automatically becomes a 1870.
Q:Is it true that Al Capone loved
bar mitzvah at 13 and a girl at
Jewish food?
12.
A: Big Al was indeed a big fan
Saying, "he was bar mitzva-
hed" makes about
as much sense as
saying, "she was
grown-upped" or
"he was adulted."
Q: I recently rented
a video of my favorite
movie, Amadeus, in
which the Italian com-
poser, Salieri, is ac-
cused of causing
Mozart's death. That
got me thinking about
a possible Jewish con-
nection to the rivalry
between Salieri and
Mozart. I haven't been
able to find a thing,
though, and it's dri-
ving me crazy. Can
Tell Me Why help
out?
A: My music-lov-
ing friend, how
sharp you were to
bring your trebles to
Tell Me Why,
where your con-
cerns — however
minor or major —
always will be not-
ed.
Antonio Salieri
did, indeed, openly
hate Mozart. After
Mozart's death in Jake GuziIc His dishes m000ved Big Al.
1791, rumors
spread that Salieri
had used poison to murder the of Jewish food — and hey, if Al
young German composer. The Capone said jellied calves' feet
slander haunted Salieri for the was delicious, like, who was go-
rest of his life. On his deathbed ing to disagree?
In his new book Capone: The
in 1825, he summoned the Jew-
ish musician, Ignaz Moscheles, Man and the Era, Laurence
and declared: "I did not poison Bergreen writes that the Chica-
go mobster learned all about Jew-
Mozart."
Moscheles was born in Prague ish food from his close pal Jacob
Guzik, the son of Russian-Jew-
ish immigrants.
Al Capone, who was born in
New York, was relatively new on
the gangster scene when he ar-
rived in Chicago to work with
Johnny Torrio. But Al found his
real soul mate in crime when
Jake Guzik arranged a bribe to
help the Torrio-Capone gang out
of some hot water with the gov-
ernment.
Guzik, who reportedly got his
famous nickname "Greasy
Thumb" after a waiter at a kosher
restaurant stuck his thumb in
Jake's soup, always insisted he
wasn't a mobster. In fact, Mr.
Bergreen writes, he was "a scion
of Chicago's first family of vice."
Jake was "like an older broth-
er" to Al Capone and "made him
feel at home in Chicago." Al even
picked up a little Yiddish from
hanging around Jake, "as well as
fondness for Jewish delicacies
such as jellied
calves' feet" (also
known as p'tcha).
Al Capone so ad-
mired Jake Guzik,
in fact, that he
switched alle-
giances from Torrio
to Guzik — mark-
ing the first time
Scarface worked for
anyone other than
Italians.
Q: Is it true that the
Bible does not call
those famous tablets
the "Ten Command-
ments"?
A: It is absolutely
true.
tablets
The
Moses received on
Mt. Sinai are re-
ferred to in Deuter-
onomy 4:13 and
10:4 as Aseret Hade-
varim, the "ten
words," while rab-
binic literature la-
bels them Aseret
Hadibrot, the "ten
sayings."
Nowhere does
the Torah describe
the listings on the
tablets — included
in the 613 mitzvot
— as "command-
ments." When God gives them to
the Jewish people, He states sim-
ply, "I am the Lord thy God." 111
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