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Who Kicked The Kibl?
Tell Me Why's Yiddish correspondent comes to the rescue yet again.
ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Q: Tell Me Why recently en-
lightened me concerning the Yid-
dish word for "ceiling." Now I'm
wondering, what is the Yiddish
word for "bucket"?
From reader S.S. in Baltimore
A: Tell Me Why's favorite
Yiddish expert reports that
two Yiddish words exist for
"pail" or "bucket." They are em-
mer and kibl.
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Q: Tell Me Why, it has been so
long, so very long since we had a
Guido update.
I hardly have been able to func-
tion without it. My wife is asking,
"What's the matter with you?" and
my children don't understand why
I won't join them for a game of
baseball any longer.
Of course, I don't want to tell
just anyone about the problem. But
I feel I must share this with you. I
need to know more Jewish Guidos.
I beg of you, Tell Me Why, end my
agony.
A: Dear friend, I feel your
pain. Guido addicts are every-
where. They are your friends.
They are your neighbors. Just
open your heart and let it all
come out. It doesn't mean
you're not still a man.
But now, let's chat about
Guido Adler. Adler (1855-1941)
was a musicologist and native
of Austria. In 1881, he began
serving as a lecturer in musi-
cology at Vienna University.
Four years later, he founded
the publication Vierteljahrss-
chrift fuer Musikwissenschaft,
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and in 1927 he was named
honorary president of the In-
ternational Society of Musi-
cology.
But wait, there's more. Nat-
urally, women out there want
their fair share of Guido, too.
We've got the answer!
Check out Guiditta Pasta
(hey, do you think spaghetti,
or maybe manicotti, was her
favorite food?), a native of Italy
and one of the leading sopra-
nos of the 19th century. She
died in 1865.
Q: In a recent issue, Tell Me
Why discussed "a very odd gift"
of rose petal jam. Exotic yes, odd
— never! Rose petal jam brought
back fond memories of the 1930s,
when I went as a child with my par-
ents to the sand dunes, where we
collected wild rose petals for jam
and syrup. Try it on vanilla ice
cream. My mother wanted to mer-
chandise it, but could not find nor
create a market. A loss to the
world.
Now, Tell Me Why, we do not
eat meat and milk, so why is
chicken with an egg all right?
From reader J.L. in West Palm
Beach, Fla.
A: Your question seems to
have been inspired by a pop-
ular notion that a profound
moral base must lie at the
heart of kashrut. Some Jews
assert that the real reason we
don't eat meat with milk is be-
cause it would be cruel to cook
a mother animal and her child
together, for example. Others
say the purpose ofschita,
kosher slaughter, is to afford
an animal the most painless
and quickest form of death.
It may be this was what God
had in mind, but we can't
know. Jews who keep kosher
do so because God commands
it, not because the laws of
kashrut appear "humane."
They follow the biblical in-
junction "You shall not cook a
kid in its mother's milk," which
the rabbis of the Talmud ex-
plained included eating any
milk and meat together. No
mention is made anywhere of
a chicken and its egg.
In any case, you should
know that an egg is not a
chicken's "child" in the same
way a calf could be regarded
the child of a cow. A calf is an
animal that lives, breathes and
exists on its own, a separate
entity. An egg, while it holds
the potential for life, is not al-
ways a chick — as you know
from eating them fried, scram-
bled and in omelets.
Q: Who were Hitler's role mod-
els?
A: With so many outstand-
ing German and Catholic anti-
Semites, it is difficult in so
short a space to enumerate
all the odious influences on
Hitler. Let's look at one, Georg
von Schoenerer, a near con-
temporary of the Nazi mon-
ster.
Like Hitler, von Schoenerer
was born in Austria (in 1842;
Hitler was born in 1889). Un-
like Hitler, von Schoenerer
was the son of a nobleman.
Elected to the Reichsrat (par-
liament) in 1873, he soon em-
barked on an anti-Semitic,
demagogic campaign. He start-
ed his own political party and
gained wide popularity.
Von Schoenerer's fortunes
changed in 1888 when, while
drunk, he tried to destroy
the offices of a Vienna news-
paper he thought was owned
by Jews. He was expelled from
parliament and imprisoned.
His popularity did not suffer,
however. In 1897, he was re-
elected to parliament, and four
years later his party won 21
seats.
Owing to von Schoenerer's
inflated egotism and dictator-
ial attitude, his party soon
disintegrated. Nonetheless, he
remained popular with small-
town Austrians and with
college students, who joy-
fully proclaimed his slogan, "It
does not matter in what the
Jew
pig. ,, believes. Racially, he is a
Von Schoenerer died in
1921. After the Nazis united
Germany and Austria, they
named a street in Vienna's
Jewish section after him, and
in 1942 held a memorial exhi-
bition in Vienna.
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