As retold by
Bruce Lowitt
A Jewish mother sent her son off to his first day of school with the
customary pride and precautionary advice: "So bubeleh, you'll be a good boy
and listen to the teacher? And you won't
make noise, bubeleh, and you'll be very polite and play nice with the other
children? And when it's time to come home, you'll button up warm, so you won't
catch cold, bubeleh? And you'll be careful crossing the street and come straight
home?"
"Yes, mama."
When he returned that afternoon, his mother hugged him and kissed him and
exclaimed, "So did you like school, bubeleh? You made new friends? You
;earned something bubeleh?"
And the boy said, "I learned my name is Irving"
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