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...think I'll go out and get plastered, then I won't be so upset by articles like "Jews & Alcohol" [March 17]. Yale's Professor Charles Snyder certainly makes us sound like a self-satisfied, overfed bunch of stinkers. And that song, Shikker Iz a Goy! I'm from an Orthodox Jewish background, and I have never heard of it. The Yale researchers said many could recall it; they must have been oldtimers...
...Shikker Iz a Goy. The Yale researchers found many a Jew who stoutly denied having been brought up to believe that Jews are more temperate than Gentiles. Yet many could be prompted into remembering the old Yiddish song, Shikker Iz a Goy (Drunken Is a Gentile). Translation...
...Russian word for "from" is iz, which can hardly be a misprint for chrez posredstvo, which is how the Russians would translate Lincoln...
...gift for convulsing his father's sales ladies by the way he wore the ladies' hats made it clear that he was not cut out for the millinery business. His father began to catch on when young Iz (the family nickname) forged his name on an excuse from school to see the doctor. Iz went to the local vaudeville house instead. Father Leopold stormed. Iz threatened to run away- under a pseudonym, to spare the family name. Father Leopold didn't like that, either. Said he: "If you make a hit, nobody will know...
...Iz did run away-in August 1902, when he was 16-with a flea-bitten stock company. They gave him his first part: a 70-year-old Methodist minister in a melodrama called Jim Bludsoe...