From the other end of the car a Jewish voice answered:
“He’s telling me!”
NAZI SLOGAN
German National Jews, who make a show of supporting the Nazi regime, were holding a meeting under the chairmanship of Fuehrer Naumann. They are reported to have shouted enthusiastically: “Down with us! Down with us!”
HAM OVER RUSSIA
The food shortage under the Soviets is responsible for the richest crop of wisecracks. One of these represents a little Russian boy addressing his father:
“Papa,” he says, “why don’t Jews eat ham?”
The father replies bitterly:
“And we Christians—do we eat ham?”
Bikkurim was the name of a Hebrew annual which appeared in Vienna in 1864 and 1865. It was edited and published by Naphtali Keller.
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