COLORWORKS STUDIO OF INTERIOR DESIGN 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. From new construction management, to furniture on the cutting edge of design, to the simple addition of the right accessory... Our clients will be the first to tell you... the finished project speaks for itself. • • • We are pleased to announce the expansion of our design services in both Boca Raton and Scottsdale. 32500 Northwestern Highway • Farmington Hills • 851-7540 Mg e ng goucit 1204 S. 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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. $ t "evri,, Lff Send questions to "Tell Me Why" c/o The Jewish News, 27676 Franklin Rd., Southfield, MI ' 48034 or send fax to 354-6069.