An old time relevant joke from our Bukovina:
A very rich man is encountered on the
street by a pauper asking for alms.
The rich tells his entourage:
" Take this man away !
I cant look at this misery !
( Ich kann mir das Elend nicht anschauen )
Hardy
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מאת: Shelley [mailto:shemit65_at_gmail.com]
נשלח: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 8:52 AM
אל: Hardy Breier
עותק: yosi-jerry; Dale Prince; cornel fleming; jerome schatten;
CZERNOWITZ-L; Frederick M. Weisinger; Anny Matar
נושא: Re: [Cz-L] Book of the Month, January 2015: "A Sanguine Bunch"
The moderator made a funny. The moderator sees us drifting away and
Hardy has us stuck in cow dung. Very good one.
Shelley
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Hardy Breier <hardy3_at_bezeqint.net> wrote:
>
> As I can see , the discussion leaves us all deep
> in cow dung.
> This is extremely unpleasant in concept but
> this is how it was .
> This discussion brings back a story of old.
> In school they get a task: to describe life in a
> poor household. Willy the son of very rich writes:
> "And all were poor - the driver, the two gardeners,
> all the maids , and cooks, - all poor as church mice !"
>
> Hardy
> [As I can see, we're drifting away from Bukovina, eh? --the moderator]
>
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> מאת: bounce-118678253-3499476_at_list.cornell.edu
> [mailto:bounce-118678253-3499476_at_list.cornell.edu] בשם yosi-jerry
> נשלח: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 10:07 PM
> אל: Dale Prince; 'cornel fleming'; 'jerome schatten'; 'CZERNOWITZ-L'
> עותק: 'Frederick M. Weisinger'; 'Anny Matar'
> נושא: Re: [Cz-L] Book of the Month, January 2015: "A Sanguine Bunch"
>
> Dear all
> Just a few facts known to me, without going into depth research about
the
> causes behind those facts. 1. The majority of Jews in eastern Europe were
> poor. Being observant they they had big families, which made them even
> poorer. 2. Cow dung was used as binding material between mud an straw. A
> mixture used as construction material. 3. Shakespeare's Shylock was a
> prototype of a usurers. 4. Learning and scholarship were the most
estimated
> qualities among the the Jews. Every observant "Gevir" looked for a "Talmid
> Khakham" as a son in law. 5. The Socialist Zionist movements rejected the
> traditional social structure of Jews in which the layer of production
> workers was a minority.
> A belated Happy 2015 New Year
> Yosef Eshet
>
>
>
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