The town fathers of Judenbach, a village near Sonneberg, were pondering today the old, old question of “what’s in a name?”
Suddenly acutely conscious of the fact that they were out-of-step with the rest of “Aryanized” Germany by virtue of the fact that their town bears a name which, literally translated, means “Jews’ Brook,” they called a special meeting for the purpose of changing the name.
The town’s solons, however, decided to move cautiously in the matter, announcing that before they took the step of changing the Jewish name they would investigate thoroughly the circumstances under which it had been acquired.
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