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Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview FOLKLORE
NLW YORK
FORM A
Circumstances of Interview
STATE
NAME OF WORKER
ADDRESS
DATE
SUBJECT
NOW Tort
Terry Roth Sue Sehmurte
47 rent 09 Street 15B Meet 13 Street
Marsh 28# 19119
Push A Beautiful Whiskers/
1. Date and time of nterview
3«27.028 afternoon
2. Place of interview
ar,*•.j•
3. Name and address of informant
Mr. Nollman
4. Name and address of person, if any, who put you in
touch with informant.
5. Name and address of person, if any, accompanyinL you
Sea Sahwarts
6. Description of room, house, surroundings, etc.
(Use as many additional sheets as necessary, for any of the forms, each
bearing the proper heading and the number to which the material refers.)
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STATE
NAME OF .IORKER
ADDRESS
DATE
SUBJECT
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Text of Interview (Unedited)
New York
Terry Roth
47 West 69 Street
March 28, 1939
Such 41, Beautiful Ihiskerel
SUCH A BEAUTIFUL WHISKERS/
FOLKLORE
NEVI YORK
Seus So/marts
162 West 13 Street
Take, for instance. Shalom Asoh is a beautiful writer but
he suffers from a oertuin defect. If you would visualise Asoh's writing,
like a tree with colon; and ornaments. But Schneier is so realistic.
He grows in the darkness in a very intimate relationship and you don't
feel that this is pornagraphio. It is so realistic. But Asch has a
narrow scope. The style of his writing is too ornamental.
You know? I'm beginning to feel a medieval Monk's contempt
for existence. First, a year and a half out of work. And now I have
a room. It is so dark. Besides, that atmosphere' Do not misunderstand.
I live with Galician Jews. I don't like to condemn a people. It is a000unt
of their talk. They are very small and petty. And they have a right to
be small. They had a very poor country. So they have acquired very ugly
characteristic's. When I atm* to America I was running to Austria. Why
did I run to Austria? Because I had there a cousin. A very prominent man.
4.
So I ran there, when I was laying in hide a couple of weeks until to
put me over the other side* So I went there, I want to give you the
characteristics of the Galician Jews* So one day I WA sitting in a
restaurant and right across me when I raised my eyes, I seen a beautiful
whiskers, big, long, blonde "Makers* And when I lifted my eyes, the
face that belonged to tboee whiskers —so terriblei I thought* Mat a beauti-
ful whiskers and what a terrible face'. So I was looking on him in amass»
want. Suddenly I heard four or five man came in, talking, taking, talk.
ing, talking* (bs of %hose Jews, also with whiskers starts in talking,
like singing, at gym, at =in....they go, they go** no says to that one
I'm looking at* Mow is it poseible that a man with such a beautiful
whiskers like you, has to be connected with such a ugly earnings*" So
I know immediately that he is a white slaver* So you know what he
answered him? You know, the Galician, talk with such a sing song* 41114440,
Vus sol ich to -in? Sic my penuwisa". tWell, what Shall I do? I'm making
a living)* So one picked up a big bottle and hit him over his head and
killed him, I diet ever winkle with my eyes* I thought to myself* fiush
a creature deserves such a vulgar death'. Can there be anything more vulgar
when one dies with a bottle ovcr his head? Since then, when I talk to the
galioians, it is ringing in my ears, 0/44se-oe„ 'Its sol ioh Sis my penusise*
I'm from Russia, Central Russia, we lived with this best feelings
with gentiles* You knoww...Aussia has 170 million peoples she has 128 million
people the city folks* The rest of them are from outlying villages* The
Cotsipps (Greek Orthodox Russians) are actually the bulk of Russias culture*
You meet a itussian, he's six feet two or six feet four, with those whiskers,
But he is just like a child. Be will open up his heart and, "Gila
Look at it". You know, when I oame to Galicia and Iseen thole,
Galicians, many times I was aotually gasping for air, I oouldn't
breath. In my career of wanderings I livsd with Litvais too. But they
are so different. First of all, a Litvak, he will not —when it COMO.
Friday, no matter what he has. "Mr. 1411man, you mnsT eat with us on
the Sabbath." YOU !MB TO, And they are a very poor oourtry. nut they
are a different kind of people.