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Orellana:[To Leber, about to dig into a towering salad] Hey there, you with the Jewish joke of a face, spit one out for us. That should perk you up. Nobody can tell Jewish jokes like a Jew. And now…
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Samuel Eichelbaum
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1942
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The Führer inquires of General Franco, “Comrade, how did you solve the Jewish problem?”
Franco answers, “I instituted the yellow badge.”
“That’s nothing,” says Hitler. “I imposed tributes…
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Shimon Huberband
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Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941
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Sometimes, when I return from a trip abroad, I try to imagine that I am a new immigrant. You know, the first time that I arrived in Israel from the Diaspora, with all the pekelech and hopes, and…
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Yehonatan Geffen
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1981
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These last words—spoken in all seriousness—completely confused Heinz. He thought he hadn’t heard right.
“Sorry—What do you have?”
“Patrol duty—Jacob can take care of the money now; you’ve seen that…
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Sammy Gronemann
Places:
Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1918
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When my engagement was decided, my sister and brother-in-law announced, “You are engaged” without my even meeting the father of the bride.
As the date of my wedding approached, I still didn’t have the…
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Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi
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Salonica, Ottoman Palestine
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
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1881–1890
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One more incident.
A woman shows up at the president’s office and demands the immediate return of her son, who is working in Djelloula, in the Italian sector.
It is impossible to reason…
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Paul Ghez
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(Westerbork transit camp, Netherlands)
Date:
1943
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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…
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Moyshe Nudelman
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
(New York, United States of America)
Date:
1947
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Sinyor Moshe Weinstein, who has recently returned from Chile, a free republic in South America, relates upsetting things about the Jews of this country.
The number of Jews residing in Chile barely…
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Unknown
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Plovdiv, Ottoman Empire
(Plovdiv, Bulgaria)
Date:
1903
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As I informed you in yesterday’s cable, hearings on the cause célèbre that is stirring up all of Palestine have begun before the Grand Sanhedrin in Jerusalem.
The issue is really quite…
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Jacques Bahar
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1897
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Humor—is a Jewish thing. What Jew doesn’t enjoy listening to a nice story, parable, or witticism? When is a Jew indisposed to joking around? Not due to great luxury, God forbid, but on the contrary…
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Sholem Aleichem
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1892