‘Twas the night before Chanukah
and all over the place
There was noise, there was kvetching
Soch ah disgrace!
The Kinderlach, sleeping,
uneasily felt
The chocolate rush
from the Chanukah gelt
And me in the easyboy,
so stuffed with latkes,
I stretched the elastic
which held up my gatchkes.
When up on the roof
(and it has a steep pitch)
A fat alte kakker
was making a kvitsch.
I jumped up real quick
and I ran to the door,
Was it a bandeet,
or only a schnorrer?
He wasn’t alone;
he had eight ferdelach,
And called them by name
as he gave a gebrach:
“On Moishe, on Yankel, on Itzik, on Sam,
On Mendel, on Shmendrik, on Feivush, on Ham;
My kidneys are kvelling;
do you give a damn?”
He had a white beard
and payyes to boot,
And to keep out the cold,
he had such a nice suit!
A second from Peerless,
I could tell at a glance,
But the cut was okay,
and so were the pants.
He was triple XL,
a real groisser goof,
So I yelled out,
“Meshuggener! Get off from Mein roof!”
He jumped down and said
as he shook hands with me,
“Max Klaus is the name.
You have maybe some tea?”
So I gave him a gleisel,
while he shook his white mop,
Mutt’ring, “Always the same thing,
They’re dreying my kopp!”
From Victoria to Hudson Bay,
Outremont to Reginek,
Every shmo in the world
hakks meir a cheinik!
They’re screaming for presents,
and challah with schmaltz,
And from Brooklyn alone,
the back pain, gevaltz!
So we sat and yentehed,
and we spun the old dreydels,
(He took all of my money,
and one of my kanidels)
He said, “Business is not bad,
a living I make,
But I’m getting too old
for this Chanukah fake;
And the cell phones, you see
how my pacemaker dings?
For two cents I’d quit,
and move to Palm Springs”
And he gave a geshrei
as he fled mit a lacht,
“Gut Yontiff to All,
Vey is Mir, Such a Nacht!”
Christmas comes, but once a year is enough. - American Proverb
A turkey never voted for an early Christmas. - Unknown
All men are Jews, except they don't know it. - Bernard Malamud
I get really grinchy right up until Christmas morning. - Dan Aykroyd
I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor. - Harrison Ford
Jesus was a Jew, yes, but only on his mother's side. - Archie Bunker
Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They're worth it. - Henny Youngman
Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas. - Robert Englund
I'm Jewish, so I don't know much about Easter eggs. - Simon Kinberg
I'm walking backwards for Christmas Across the Irish Sea. - Spike Milligan
I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. - Fidel Castro
I'm not a Jew. I'm Jewish. I don't go the whole hog. - Jonathan Miller
Jews don't drink much because it interferes with their suffering. - Milton Berle
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. - Brendan Behan
Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. - Kin Hubbard
Mail your packages early, so the Post Office can lose them in time for Christmas. - Johnny Carson
I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. - Daniel Radcliffe
If my Valentine you won't be,
I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree. - Ernest Hemingway
This is a Jewish cake - they give this to a Jewish kid before he gets circumscribed. - Archie Bunker
Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa. - Bart Simpson
I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale. - Robert H. Schuller
True and solemn meaning of Christmas, which is a time for peace and quiet contemptation. - Archie Bunker
Show me a Jewish boy who doesn't go to medical school and I'll show you a lawyer. - Milton Berle
If 'ifs and buts' were 'candy and nuts', we'd have Christmas every day. - Unknown
Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials. - Mordecai Richler
I still have my Christmas Tree. I looked at it today. Sure enough, I couldn't see any forests. - Steven Wright
No matter how carefully you stored the lights last year, they will be snarled again this Christmas. - Robert Kirby
The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants. - John Andrew Holmes
Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies. - Milton Berle
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a family all wrapped up in each other. - Bill Vaughan
I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris
Might make a real good Christmas present for the uninformed. The book is called 'Taking America Back.' - Paul Harvey
I gave my young nephew a book for Christmas. He's spent six months looking for where to put the batteries. - Milton Berle
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. - Garrison Keillor
This is the real enemy, the invader from the East, the Druze, the ruffian, the oriental parasite; in a word: the Jew. - George Bernard Shaw
Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness. - Billy Graham
It goes back to Christianity's affiliation with Judaism as Passover. Easter is as important to Christians as Passover is to the Jews. - Glenn Duffy
A car hits a Jewish man. The paramedic rushes over and says, "Are you comfortable?" The guy says, "I make a good living." - Henny Youngman
Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics. - Marvin Olasky
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