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ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Q: Is it true that the first
Q: Has a Jewish race-car
major
book published in the
driver ever won the Indi-
United
States has a Jewish
anapolis 500?
A: Yes, but only one. Maurice connection?
(Mauri) Rose won the Indy 500
A: Yes. Seventeen-hundred

in -1941, 1947 and 1948.
copies of the Bay Psalm Book
Rose was born in Columbus, were published in 1640 in
Ohio, in 1906. Af-
America. Four
ter graduating
copies of this origi-
nal translation
from engineering
school at the Uni-
from the Hebrew
versity of Califor-
Book of Psalms re-
nia-Los Angeles,
main in existence
he moved to De-
today. In 1948, one
troit where he
went up for auction
worked for Hup-
and sold for
mobile.
$151,000.
Rose began rac-
Q: It seems that
ing cars in his
Jews
always em-
youth. In 1933, he
pathize
with their
entered his first
enemies, talking
race at Indianapo-
lis. He retired from
about how we
racing in 1951.
should try to un-
Throughout his years of racing, derstand those who torment
he maintained a career in engi-
us. Were there any Jews who
neering, much of it in Detroit.
Rose had nothing to do with tried to appease the Nazis?
A: Jews do a lot of crazy
Judaism. He was married three
times, never to a Jew. In his things and yes, there were some
second marriage, he became ac- who tried to make nice with the
Nazis in pre-Holocaust Ger-
tive in the Lutheran church.
Rose died in 1981 and was many.
buried in a nonsectarian
cemetery outside Detroit.

immigration of east European
Jews to Germany and de-
manded that Zionists be de-
prived of their German
citizenship. It urged Jews to
acknowledge the truth of some
anti-Semitic charges.
Naumann hailed Hitler's
rise to power in 1933, calling
Nazi leaders "noble idealists"
whose anti-Semitism was
simply an error. The Verband
offered to cooperate with
the Nazi regime, but was re-
buffed. The Hitler Youth
Movement also rejected the
Verband youth movement
Schwarzes Faehnleim, Little
Black Flag.
Calling the Verband "hostile
to the state," the Nazis dis-
solved the organization in the
mid-1930s.

Q: As you must certainly re-
alize, there is a big debate
within the Elvis community
about what to call Elvis im-
personators — Elvises or
Elvii.
Well, I am a member of a
Barry Manilow fan club and,
no doubt in
years to come
there will be
Q: Could you please
any number of
tell me the tallest and
Barry Manilow
the shortest Jewish
impersonators.
stars?
Talent like that
A: Tell Me Why is al-
just begs for
ways delighted to reach
imitation.
to new heights with ques-
Anyway, so
tions like these.
According to Ed Lu-
that this debate
caire's The Celebrity Al-
doesn't arise
manac, the tallest Jewish
among Barry
actor, coming in at a
Manilow fans, I
whopping 6 feet 6 inches,
think
it would
is the late Abe Vigoda.
Other Jewish stars of
be best if we
great stature: radio talk-
settled the is-
show embarrassment
sue here and
Howard Stern (6 feet 5
now. I'm leav-
inches) and actor Jeff "Fly
ing the deci-
Me" Goldblum (6 feet 4
inches).
sion in your
The shortest Jewish
hands. What
star around is Paul Si-
would
you call
mon, who is 5 feet 2 inch-
a
group
of Bar-
es (with or without that
ry
Manilow
im-
toupee we don't know).
Dr. Ruth: The long and the short of it.
Other short guys: Roman Polan-
personators — Manilows or
ski, Norman Mailer and Mel
In 1921, a Bavarian lawyer Manilii?
Brooks, all 5 feet 4 inches.
named Max Naumann formed
A: I would call it hell on
And, lest Tell Me Why be la-

an organization called Ver- earth.
beled politically incorrect: the band Nationaldeutscher Ju-
tallest famous Jewish female is den, or the Association of
Carly Simon, at 5 feet 11 inch- National German Jews. Its Send questions to "Tell Me Why"
es, and the shortest is Dr. Ruth right-wing program was ex- c I o The Jewish News, 27676
Westheimer, who is 4 feet 7 tremist assimilation and anti- Franklin Rd., Southfield, MI
inches.
Zionism. It also opposed the 48034 or send fax to 354-6069.

