The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-01-12
OR A M A
Jokes AND LIBELS
RY A. A. ROBACK


Jokes AND LIBELS ,,s
- <1;++1 RueR ook0 HaIdeman-Ju Julius is courageous
d Usually Sensible pubIicist. His irresstlDle lmpusS
shock people, however, puts MN III Inds as when he
retaiIs this joke (Amercan Freeman FeD' Western
Jewish battalion was formed on tne lev S1o
Front and, looking around for a slOgd"' C"O00 1'O
advance without security - :: +h "doub1o
entendre, this time not referring ~ ;lvad annuIs
whatever wit might be attached to the STORY: an U
averse myself to making public something WHICH, 1nfor-
acerisc of the Jews, if there is point TO IT,
natelv the slogan to which Mr. HademanJuhus (nmseH
1evl oives such wide publicity and which douDtess VIII pe
copied and repeated ad bitum not typical OF 1ne Jes
known to advance almost unlimited credit on no guarantee
INITIATING FACTS
Need mention the young Italian Jew VINO was AWARDED
the most coveted war decoration in the wordthe Gold
Medal of Italy? What about the jewish volunteers III
Loyaist span The exploits Of the Jewish Legion IN Pae nd
how about Sam Dreben who known as the 1lgntlng
Jew by American veterans of several wars
Must one go through the list of decorations again.
and remind people of General MOnd who died the Polish
battlefront leading advance of his or of General
Monash Commander of the Anzacs as well as numerous
other officers in the French British Italian and American
armies? In tOdays press item to the effect that OF
the Polish Legion in France IS per cent of the volunteers
Jews and in addition there four hundred Jewish Of
fcers in training.
know some non-Jews will say "Oh that's only joke
The Jews take it" When a human ass brays out
stupid charge against yO and noting dspeasure hee
haws loud Oh you can't take it, he deserves something
worse than saddle.
The Jews, goodness knows, have been "takng"-their
very lives in this hell called the Reich and annexatOns At
least their character should not be cruelty besmirched at
time when the slightest spot is certain to be backened by
a bowling mob
A REMARKABLE CRIMINAL
Assuming that the report of Urke Nakhaniks death
at Otwock Poland at the hands of the Nazis is true
might take occasion to say that Farbarowcz he
known in the underworld of Poland, "Urke Nakhalnil"
Ace Crook the author Of the best criminal memoirs
have ever read This autobiography Cup to his release
from PRISON. appeared in Yiddsh and in Polish with an in
PRODUCTION by Polish professor of psychology who pointed
out the sociological value of the work. It was nv nten-
ton to bring out the memoirs in English translation and
to this end received Urke authorization but after trans
atng part of the volume doubted the wisdom of promu
gazing the description of the Jewish underworld at this time
Perhaps too was just well that the publishers to
whom sample of the manuscript submitted were not
so keen as was about the merits of the work. Neverhe
ess am quite convinced that Urke Nakhani was an oh
servant and reflective individual with an unusual sense of
huor and still contend that the auobographies extant
IN Englsh by such characters cannot compare with Urke
Nakhalniks "Mein Lebensveg".
FROM YESHIVA TO PRISON
Here was bright boy the son of respectable middle
Grass people who wanted to make something of him and
WHO at the mOthers instance, to Yeshva hut
ne managed TO take the wide road of and pleasure HE
accounts OF prison life under the Russian Polish and Ger
man regimes make instructive reading while the detailed
story OF MS burgares and underworld life is truly fasc
dthg: In the last decade he reformed married gradm
ave OF the Vna Jewish gymnasium and proud of his wife
anu cno lea respectable literary life meeting with some
success as playwright and lecturer Will SOA'le