“Herr Adolf Hitler of Germany would be covered with confusion if he dared to enter the strictly kosher home of Mrs. Rose Hitler, pretty young Jewish housewife, who lives at 233 E. 92nd Street, in the heart of Brooklyn’s Brownsville.”
That is the start of an improbable article from June 1933, entitled “Kiss the Mezuzah — and meet the Brownsville Hitlers.”
It is a snapshot of a time when Hitler was a recognizable, if increasingly ironic, Jewish surname in New York City. According to Rose Hitler, more than 30 families across the city bore the last name of the man who became the chancellor of Germany that year and one of history’s worst monsters.
The article was accurate about the increasing discomfort of New Yorkers named Hitler or Hittler. Living in what was a very Jewish neighborhood at the time, Frank and Rose’s kids began having trouble at school.
Friends of four-year-old Rita called her a Nazi.
“My father-in-law, may he rest in peace, used to say when he was living that he never heard of a Hitler who wasn’t Jewish,” she said. “Take my brother-in-law, Louis Hitler, who lives on Pulaski Street. Take all the other Hitlers in New York.”
http://forward.com/fast-forward/371545/when-hitler-was-a-common-last-name-in-jewish-brooklyn/
What..?
RU fkn kidding me..
There were…
Hitlersteins ..and
Hitlerbergs…and
Hitlerblaums in Brooklyn. .?
Get da fk outta Hereyer..
You’re on a roll tonight flee!
Thank you! Thanks for making me laugh! Much needed! 🙂
my OLD LADYS NAME IS ERNST….
I DONT SLEEP……………………………….
“… who became the chancellor of Germany that year and one of history’s worst monsters.”
Only because the TRUE monsters behind him were so good at deception.
And even the 6 million LIE is NOTHING compared to what the Edomite Russians did – 66 million+.
But you NEVER hear about THAT MASS GENOCIDE!