Mazel Toffs
It didn’t hurt to be a Gentile on
The Silver Screen within the Golden Age.
The Jews who ran it walked out on the lawn
(The Riv of course). They had to disengage
Their cut cock culture from the shiksa one.
They played croquet for goodness sake
And played at East Coast manners. To shun
Their pasts, they’d even change to fake
Names, “William Fox” was Wilhelm Fuchs. The game
Of golf was meant to help him hide his roots.
When Jews weren’t buying thoroughbreds, their shame
Was bent to buying Gentile women, silk suits,
And changing Yankee men to English chaps
With highfalutin speech to mend the gaps.
~ Phillip Whidden