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the chapters in our Hebrew gram-
mar book. The stories were dull
as chicken soup without
canaidalach because the plot was
slaved to the vocabulary lesson —
the Hebrew equivalent of "See
Spot Run." A racy chapter would
be titled "David Takes a Walk."
The story was a weird world of
mother, father, brother, sister, and
windows, tables, eggplant, good
morning and good night. Who
could make it interesting? Sholom
Aleichem could have brought in
Beryl the Jewel Thief from Min-
sk and still have broken his pen-
cil in frustration.
Sometimes Father (Abba), a
brilliant chatterbox, would say
things like, "See the table". It was
the highlight of the two-page sto-
ry.
We left class talking to each oth-
er about windows, fathers, and
eggplants in words of single syl-
lables.
"You talk so strange when you
return home from cheder, Teddy,"
said my mother (Ema).
"Yes, how are you, my moth-
er. When will you bring egg-
plant?"
As Ema and Abba chattered
away in our books, we inmates
were fixated by the two big, open
windows of the room. There
wasn't one of us who couldn't stare
out that window and clearly see
the baseball field, five miles away
— on the other side of town — and
hear the exuberant shouts of the
players — our non-Jewish pals.
Whatta religion they had! None
of this three-day-a-week impris-
onment — only Sunday school.
Oh well, I must have done
something right. Pve got a grand-
daughter who's the star of her He-
brew day school class. Sure, why
not. She devotes no time at all to
baseball practice. ❑

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