Thread by @onthemainline

Here are some questions little Jewish boys and girls had, asked and answered in The Jewish Child, 1912-13.

Esther Apfelbaum, Hyman Norman, Dora Moskowitz, and Jacob Seworsky wanted to know "How did the Jews get the Yiddish language?"

Florence Cohen, Henrietta Hotz, Jacob Becker, and Hyman Rosen, proto-SAR students (cc @Doc_RPS) wished to know "Why do Jews have to wear a hat in the synagogue? and why are we not allowed to wear our hats in public school?"

Frieda Willensky and Reuben Caplan wanted to know "Why do we read Hebrew backwards?"

Lillian Steigbigel asked "Did the people in the time of Moses of Joshua have any second names, if so what was the second name of Moses?"

Bertha Benjame asks "Please tell me why our mothers do not wash dishes with soap?"

Ruth Berman asks a really smart question several weeks later: "If soap is "trepha", why do the Jewish people wash dish towels with soap?"

Annie Weissbrook asks "Why do our mothers put their hands on their faces while lighting the "Sbbath Lights?""

Sarah Spielman wants to know "Will you tell me whether Ruth was at first a Christian girl and how she became a Jewess?"

Mary Starr asks "Why do so many Jewish women wear wigs or "sheitels"?"

Here are a few other questions, one of which, by Harry D. Wise, once again wonders "Why if the Hebrew language written from right to left, unlike all others?"

And here is a 'riddle'.

Who is he?
He is She.