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N.J. Eatery
Writes ‘Jew Couple’ on Check
ALLENHURST, N.J.– The bill was a shocker, and not because of the amount. After eating at a Jersey shore restaurant, Elliott
Stein and his girlfriend were handed a bill that said “Jew Couple” near the bottom, as a table identifier used by the waitstaff. The slur
[sic]
also turned up on Stein’s credit card statement weeks later.
I am mildly baffled by this news item.
It reminds me as an historian of the early days of the Nazi
“struggle for power” when the Jews and
Nazis tormented eachother through the law courts (and it is still not entirely clear who won). In one landmark case, the Berlin police chief Bernhard
Weiss (“Isidore” to Dr Joseph
Goebbels and his friends) sued
Goebbels for calling him a Jew; the judge pointed out that (a) the Herr
Polizeipräsident was in fact a Jew, and (b) the word Jew is not a slur.
Mr Elliott Stein should remember that. The worthy police chief, whose daughter now lives in London (and refused some years ago to provide me with a less unflattering photo of her father than the one often used in the Nazi press), then sued Goebbels for publishing in Der Angriff a cartoon showing him as a Donkey skating on ice. The Court determined that the cartoon donkey clearly portrayed
Dr Weiss.
Goebbels’s newspaper headlined the finding the next day:
JUDGE SAYS ISIDORE LOOKS
LIKE A DONKEY, and it was hard to fault the logic in that. In 1933 Weiss fled to London, where a sterner sense of humour prevailed.
The New Jersey Attorney
General’s Office said Wednesday it is investigating the July incident at
Parkhill’s Waterfront Grill through its Division on
Civil Rights.
Stein, 23, could not be reached for comment
Wednesday. He did not return two telephone messages left at his office.
The server, identified on the check only as
Karina, is no longer working at the restaurant, general manager Malia Wells said Wednesday.
Wells wouldn’t say if it was because of the incident.
“We don’t run our establishment like that,”
Wells said. “It was definitely poor judgment on her part.”
Stephen Reid, a spokesman for the restaurant, said it had been the waitstaff’s practice to use descriptions of diners to identify them on checks, instead of using the number of their table, as many establishments do.
He said racial slurs were never used to describe diners.