humor: may 29 -- Sabbath Humor

[Nick Brown <nbrown@polymail.cpunix.calpoly.edu>]

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BEFORE THE COLD WAR....

After months of negotiation, a Jewish scholar from Odessa was granted
permission to visit Moscow.  He boarded the train and found an empty seat.

At the next stop a young man got on and sat next to him.  The scholar
looked at the young man and thought:  "This fellow doesn't look like a
peasant, and if he isn't a peasant he probably comes from this district. If
he comes from this district, he must be Jewish because this is, after all,
the Jewish district."

"On the other hand, if he is a Jew where could he be going?   I'm the only
one in our district who has permission to travel to Moscow.   Wait - just
outside Moscow there is a little village called Samvet, and you don't need
special permission to go there."

"But why would he be going to Samvet?  He's probably going to visit one of
the Jewish families there and there are just two of them - the Bernsteins
and the Steinbergs.  The Bernsteins are a terrible family, so he must be
visiting the Steinbergs."

"But why is he going?  The Steinbergs have no sons and three daughters, so
maybe he's their son-in-law. But if he is, then which daughter did he
marry?   Sarah married that nice lawyer from Budapest and Esther married a
businessman from Zhadomir, so it must be Sarah's husband.  Which means that
his name is Alexander Cohen, if I'm not mistaken."

"But if he comes from Budapest, with all the anti-Semitism they have there,
he must have changed his name. What's the Hungarian equivalent of Cohen?
Kovacs.  But if he changed his name he must have some special status.  What
could it be?  A doctorate from the University."

At this point the scholar turns to the young man and said,
"How do you do, Dr. Kovacs?"

"Very well, thank you, sir" answered the startled passenger.
"But how is it that you know my name?"

"Oh," replied the scholar, "it was obvious".

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