People
are always saying that
we Jews cheat other people,
that we lie and deceive.
Not a word of it is true.
We Jews are the most decent
people in the world.
Four Germans sit talking
in a public house. One
is a Jew, Salomon, who
is telling the others
that the Jews are the
most decent people to
be found anywhere.
Zimmermann
won't have it and cites
cases of Jewish rogues he
has met.
The Jew gets
uneasy, and seeks a way
out by saying:
Oh well, but
those are exceptions!
The peasant
joins in the talk and supports
Zimmermann.
Salomon gets
angry. He has paid for the
beer and still must listen
to that sort of talk from
them.
You talk a
lot of stupid nonsense!
he cries, but not a word
about decent Jews. And there
are plenty of decent Jews.
Am I not one? Was I not
a soldier at the front?
Did I not defend the Fatherland.
Have I not paid for your
beer, you impudent creatures,
stupid Goys!
There is silence
in the room. Then the worker
gets up who has said little,
and throws a coin to the
Jew.
Finished,
Salomon. Here is your money.
We will not have you paying
for us. But now you shall
have the truth! You liar!
You never heard a bullet.
You were indispensable,
and stayed at home profiteering,
then you were with the Reds,
calling Down with Germany!
Long live the World Revolution!
And now you are a decent
Jew? Not a bit of it! There
aren't any decent Jews.
Salomon picks
up his hat and runs like
the Devil from the public
house. Everybody laughs.
What a pity
he has gone! says Zimmermann.
I should like to have repeated
the following saying to
him:
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So oft we hear the
yarn
How brave such and
such a Jew was.
How he gave his money
to the poor
And was an angel in
the world.
A Jew, like a pure
angel?
That must be a fairy
tale!
Who invents such things?
It is the Jew, himself,
who does it!
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