I, the Polish Jew

Moyshe Nudelman

1947

I have the good luck to be a Polish Jew.

If I were a Greek Jew, a Dutch Jew, a Turkish Jew, or some other kind of Jew, I would be miserable. Who would pay any attention to me and who would be interested in me? Nobody.

But as a Polish Jew I feel quite otherwise. I know that I’m not alone. The whole world is with me. Never mind the whole world—the Je…

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Moyshe Nudelman

1905–1967

Yiddish humorist Moyshe Nudelman was active in the Warsaw Yiddish press before World War II and wrote several books collecting Jewish comedy and satire from interwar Poland. In 1934, Nudelman coedited, along with Joseph Shimon Goldstein, the weekly Tararam, a satirical paper. After the war, he worked on a number of Broadway shows, including the musicals Let’s Sing Yiddish and Sing, Israel, Sing, which both played at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in New York in the late 1960s.

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