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Elisheva Schoenfeld INDEX TO DRUYAIW' S COLLECTION OF JOKES AND ANECDOTES Z Zaddik(im) (see
also: "Hassid(im)", "Hassidic
rabbi") Z. advises merchant to burn his
account book which had revealed bankruptcy. - 3017 Z. eats doughnuts with lots of
salt. Mitnaged wonders how he takes his wife. - 616
Z. and heretic in Heaven. Z. looks
for paradise but has killed a bug on Sabbat, the
other for hell but has saved a life. -1820 Z. and mitnaged
meet in third class department in train. - 640 Z. and mitnaged
turn their eyes heavenwards. The one sees angels the other aces. - 639. Z. mourns during the night of 9th
of Av. Taxcollector believes he has just come from
a town destroyed by fire. - 1245 Z. reprimands maskil
for correcting his spelling mistake. - 635 Z. sees the many hassidim who come to him on eve of Rosh Hashanah and
laughs. - 642 Z. suspected of having an affair
with gentile woman. - 617 Z. is the greatest trader, trades
with the Almighty. - 621 Z. visited by lumber merchant is
paid for the prayer for snow so as to facilitate the transport of lumber. -
603 Z.'s grandson does not give a blessing.
- 612 Z.'s son compared to Lot's daughters. -
634 Z.'s future reward: 310 worlds.
"If he were granted one only he would empty his chamber pot in the world
of his neighbor." - 1891 Z.'s future reward: 310 worlds. Ben Ze'ev cries and laughs as he knows what kind of worlds z. will get. - 2184 The zaddikim
of the Apt school differ from the Chernobi1 one in their table manners. - 651
Z. in Heaven will be fed Leviatan (Wale) which has no need to be slaughtered like
the Wild Ox. - 400 Z. of old and z. of the present in
the eyes of Hersheli. - 647 Z. would not exist if there were no
money in the world. - 624 "The later z. are greater than the earlier ones." Proof according
to phrases from the Bible. - 618 Zar Russian Z. and German Kaiser in World
War I. Former is reliable: whatever he takes he
immediately returns. Later takes but never returns. - 2761 Russian Z. intended to take revenge
of Kaiser Wi1helm. - 2757 Russian Z. promised reward to
anyone who would bring him Hindenburg's head. - 2758 Zionism Z. is too much affected by Herzl's personality, according to Wolffsohn.
- 2600 Z. derided by orthodox Jews. (R.
stern's parable on the shipwreck). - 2687 Z. discredited because of its three
aims: Erets Israel, Hebrew and Jews. - 2593 Z. discredited by rich man, when he
is asked for a contribution. - 2594 Zionist Z. Bentsi
is very much upset when forbidden to put the blue collecting box in the
synagogue on eve of Yom Kippur. - 2591 Z. congress in Prague was crowded.
The incoming crowd was directed to the right, and the left-wing delegate was
outraged. - 2605 Z. tourist in Haifa complains that
the Carmel is on the wrong side. - 2655 "A Z. is a Jew who asks for a
contribution from a second Jew for the settlement of a third Jew in
Palestine." - 2595 Z. movement. Convention of the Z.
movement said to be sleeping potion. - 2604 Z. student does not remember who
was hanged: The Ten Tribes or the Ten Commandments. - 1268 Z. youth only know the name of the
street in Tel-Aviv. - 2670 "Zionists become non-Zionists
and non-Zionists become Zionists in Erets
Israel." (Lilienblum) - 2665 Zoological gardens Z.g. were
emptied of lions, bears, wolves and stags at the time of the Nazis in
Germany. (Jewish names. Also: 1601). - 1988 Fool in z.g.
blesses the lions (pun). - 1172 |