{"id":6433,"date":"2011-12-07T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=6433"},"modified":"2023-02-24T18:45:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T23:45:23","slug":"chives-and-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/chives-and-wwii\/","title":{"rendered":"CHIVES AND WWII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>The title of<\/strong><\/span> Maury Feren\u2019s autobiography is almost book-length:<em> Wheeling &amp; Dealing In My World, Including World War II Memories, by Maury Feren, Cleveland, <\/em><em>Ohio<\/em><em>\u2019s Produce King.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6440\" style=\"width: 203px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/maury-feren-2010-age-94-from-sun-news-photo-by-ron-humphrey2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6440\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6440\" title=\"maury feren 2010, age 94 from sun news photo by ron humphrey\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/maury-feren-2010-age-94-from-sun-news-photo-by-ron-humphrey2-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/maury-feren-2010-age-94-from-sun-news-photo-by-ron-humphrey2-193x300.jpg 193w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/maury-feren-2010-age-94-from-sun-news-photo-by-ron-humphrey2.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maury Feren, 2010. (Photo by Ron Humphrey)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lettuce and tomatoes aren&#8217;t that compelling to me, but World War II is,\u00a0 so I read the book.<\/p>\n<p>Maury fought the war on two fronts: 1.) Europe and 2.) Europe\u00a0 &#8212; against his fellow American soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some chapter titles: \u201cAnother Bigot,\u201d \u201cI\u2019ll Show You What a Dirty Jew Can Do,\u201d \u201cAnti-Semitism at Home and Abroad\u201d and \u201cMore Anti-Semitism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>An American<\/strong><\/span> soldier called Maury a \u201crag peddler.\u201d\u00a0 Maury \u201cgave him a lesson in boxing that he might never forget.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/maury-feren-punching-a-guy1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6444\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"maury feren punching a guy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/maury-feren-punching-a-guy1-274x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/maury-feren-punching-a-guy1-274x300.jpg 274w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/maury-feren-punching-a-guy1.jpg 548w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A mess hall server said to Maury, \u201cVot vould you lick? A piss of this, and a piss of that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maury grabbed him by the throat.\u00a0 \u201cIf you ever talk like that again to me, I\u2019ll close your windpipe so you\u2019ll never be able to talk again.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6446\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/maury-feren-at-R-shirtless.-1944-yes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6446\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6446   \" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"maury feren at R shirtless.  1944 yes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/maury-feren-at-R-shirtless.-1944-yes-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/maury-feren-at-R-shirtless.-1944-yes-205x300.jpg 205w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/maury-feren-at-R-shirtless.-1944-yes.jpg 328w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maury Feren (shirtless), 1944, w\/ friend<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Maury encountered<\/strong><\/span> German soldiers and civilians in Essen, Germany. \u00a0\u201cI screamed at them in a Yiddish-kind-of-German about how despicable they were . . . \u2018You are murders, baby killers, women killers . . . I am a Jew.\u00a0 Look at me and see whether you want to kill me too.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I\u2019ll read Maury\u2019s chapter on chives.<\/p>\n<p>Probably not.\u00a0 Is there any ass-kicking in chives?<br \/>\n&#8212;-<br \/>\n<small>Footnote: Maury, 96, is still kickin\u2019. \u00a0<em>Biz a hundert un tsvantsik, Maury<\/em>.\u00a0 (You should live to 120, Maury.)<\/small><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8212;-<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Jack Stratton, Yiddishe Cup&#8217;s alternate drummer, as Mushy Krongold:<\/span><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pJL7fBVfWTw?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title of Maury Feren\u2019s autobiography is almost book-length: Wheeling &amp; Dealing In My World, Including World War II Memories, by Maury Feren, Cleveland, Ohio\u2019s Produce King. Lettuce and tomatoes aren&#8217;t that compelling to me, but World War II is,\u00a0 so I read the book. Maury fought the war on two fronts: 1.) 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