Ukrainian restaurant gains fame for anti-Semitic theme

Arutz Sheva ^ | 4/4/16 | Matt Wanderman

[Eleutheria5]

The 435-year-old Golden Rose Synagogue in Lviv, Ukraine, was ruined by the Nazis in 1943 and remains in its destroyed state as a testament to the dangers of anti-Semitism.

Some, however, seem to have missed the significance of the lesson. A restaurant called Pid Zolotoju Rozoju ("At the Golden Rose") now lies next to the synagogue and markets itself using the same anti-Semitic caricatures that the Nazis championed, JTA reports.

At first glance, the non-kosher restaurant seems elegantly decorated with Yiddish posters and Judaica, while a television shows pictures of the city's thriving Jewish community prior to the arrival of the Nazis.

But any pretense of respect quickly gives way to stereotypes and slurs. The JTA reporter described being served by a waiter wearing a black hat and fake peyot (long sidelocks), who introduced himself as "Moishe," though he soon admitted that his real name is Vlodymir.

The menus do not include any prices because "it's Jewish tradition to haggle," he explained. The offerings include rabbit kidneys though "Moishe" insisted that there are no pig products, before adding that he could arrange some if the customer is willing to pay more for it.

While Pid Zolotoju Rozoju is not the only restaurant looking to make a profit by trivializing Jewish suffering, it is the best known. The Ukrainian head of the Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, explained that it "panders to, and thereby enhances and legitimizes, anti-Semitic attitudes."

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[Eleutheria5]

Well, why fight a trend? Let's open up Sambo's on 125th Street in Manhattan. All the waiters will shuffle and talk like characters out of Amos & Andy. And then Babalooie's in Alamo, Texas. All waiters must talk and dress like Quick-draw McGraw's sidekick. Or Sum Dum Goy's on Canal Street, Manhattan. All waiters must be Chinese, have bucked teeth and glasses, and speak pidgin English fluently.

[Pelham]

The character Sambo as written by Helen Bannerman was a South Indian Tamil.

[shibumi]

"All the waiters will shuffle and talk like characters out of Amos & Andy."

If they dress up as Lightnin'...

.....dinner could take a really, really long time.

[dp0622]

Well, they do have The Book of Mormon and those fake Italian weddings on broadway that make Italians look like @#$@#$s. I think they have Jewish ones too. We’re just lovable buffoons.

And there are too many examples of southerners and hunters looking bad in TV and movies to list.

“My Big Fat Gay Italian Wedding” is out now”. Don’t miss it!!!!

How about “My crooked, muslim loving, money laundering Dyke wife and My Bit Fat Rapes on a Pedophile Island”?

wont see that one coming soon

[T-Bone Texan]

The waiter’s real name is not Moishe?

Eh, meh.

[Stepan12]

And people wonder why I support neutrality between Russia and the Ukraine over their current imbroglio. The Crimea belonged to Russia anyway.

[Eleutheria5]

Truth is, who really gives a f@#$. Why have all these stereotypes around if someone can’t have fun with them.

On the other hand, they can have this stereotypical Jew-boy service in the shadow of the ruin of a 425-year-old synagogue in a town with a once-vibrant Jewish community and nobody says boo for only one reason: the entire community was killed off, perhaps with the complicity of the local Ukrainians.

[Eleutheria5]

Val’s husband Andy Weener is into that, too? Or are you talking about a different Muslim-loving dyke with a perv hubby?

[ExGeeEye]

Cool idea, and I'm NOT being sarcastic.

From my "About" page:

I will know the Republic is safe when:

1. I can open an ethnic restaurant under the name of that ethnicity's "worst" cognomen (such as, but not limited to "Hiram the Honky's Hamburger Heaven"); costume the staff in ridiculous stereotypes; and deny service to any person, group, or category of people just because I want to; all without fear of legal liability.

Three other items, not germane. Feel free to look it over if you like.

Call me a hater, Please! Because I freaking HATE "Political Correctness" in all its forms.

[katana]

A couple nights ago we watched an episode of Frasier where an older Jewish mom mistakes him as being Jewish while observing his purchase of a menorah as a Christmas/Chanukah gift for his and Lilith's son, Frederick. She sets him up with her single daughter, who also assumes Frasier's Jewish till she notices the tasteful wreath in his apartment. The fun ensues.

That show managed to use nearly every Jewish stereotype from overbearing mothers looking for unattached doctors for their daughters, screaming arguments ending in guilty hugs and tears, and "Oy gevalt!" being the perfect sitcom comment. It was hilarious.

The Ukrainians were and are, like many (maybe most) Europeans, knee jerk anti-Semites and I might personally want to apply tire iron therapy to anyone making fun of or denying the Holocaust. But in general people have become far too thin skinned about ethnic humor. My "people" have an affinity for alcohol, the profession of law enforcement, and volatile tempers but no one seems to mind it when the Irish are mocked.

[tlozo]

Seems like just another stupid charge of ‘cultural appropriation’. Here in the US some are attacked for wearing dreadlocks.

[Rebelbase]

Or a restaurant called Po’Folks that mocks hillbilly’s with waitresses wearing daisy dukes and picnic chequered shirts serving collard greens and sweet potatoes.

[dp0622]

It matters because it doesn’t go both ways.

So it’s free propaganda for the cultures that actually contribute to this country.

And if it was in an area where my paesans were slaughtered, I’d take a wrecking ball to it.

Hell, if I were near this place where the Jews were slaughtered, I’d take a wrecking ball to it. It’s disgusting.

[dp0622]

I was thinking hitlary and bill. :)

[Eleutheria5]

Didn’t know Bill was into kids.

[dp0622]

I don’t think pre puberty. But that Island he went to supposedly had underage girls.

I feel so dirty just typing this.

[dfwgator]

I think the best solution is to split Ukraine into West Ukraine, with its’ capital in Lviv, that will align with the West, and the rest can be a neutral state.

Even Putin his suggested this would be satisfactory.

And it’s very true about Crimea, up until 1954, it belonged to the Russian SSR. Khrushchev, who knew he needed to win over the Ukrainians that he ruled over as Stalin’s henchman there, decided to “give” it to the Ukrainian SSR, which was pretty much an empty gesture, since Moscow was still the boss.

[Eleutheria5]

From the age of rampant stereotypes:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=i%27ve+got+a+gal+in+kalamazoo+nicholas+brothers+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3zXzyhq1Co&list=PL2610F18C534B7A59&index=5

[Eleutheria5]

“....no one seems to mind it when the Irish are mocked.”

You need to get yourself a professional pressure group. They pay people to watch all media outlets around the clock, waiting for an excuse to be offended. Then, when they finally have their pretexts, they unleash the winged monkeys, to protest, boycott and make angry chimp sounds. I don’t know which of these three elements you’re missing, but until you have your professional pressure group, you’re going to get mocked a lot. Whether it’s worth the price of having winged monkeys throwing crap all over the place and hollering is another question entirely.

[Jewbacca]

Concur. I know more Jewish jokes than anyone, and I am born and raised Israeli.

And I think one of the problems with not permitting healthy humor is that doing so is stupid and perversely allows idiots like this restaurant to thrive.

That said, this is the Ukraine.

“Fiddler on the Roof” was based there for a reason.