Why should I rub shoulders
with hoodlums and bandits?
Would not it be bolder
to join anti-Semites?

Their side is not backed
by direct legislation,
but rather by acts
of the large population.

I’ve made up my mind -
someone’s gonna get beaten!
But I’ve got to find
who the Semites are, really.

What if they are very
respectable people,
What if I get tangled
with something illegal?

My friend and adviser,
a drunkard from Spirits,
explained and surprised me:
the Jews are called Semites!

This could not be better -
a jackpot, my dear!
No room left for jitters,
there’s nothing to fear!

But I hesitated,
since during my lifetime
I’ve deeply respected
the genius of Einstein.

I still have to ask,
and I hope you’ll forgive me,
with whom should I stack
Mr. Abraham Lincoln?

Among them is Kapler,
imprisoned by Stalin,
my favorite actor -
the great Charlie Chaplin,

my friend Rabinovich,
the Holocaust victims,
and even the author
of socialism’s dictums.

But then the same boozer
increased my commitment:
the Jews drink the lifeblood
of Christian infants!

And once o’er a bottle
I heard the displeasing:
in times long forgotten
they crucified Jesus.

They’re eager for blood:
in the heat of the moment,
an elephant had
been subjected to torment!

We are hit the hardest
by acts of the evil:
they stole the whole harvest
of bread from the people.

And many a cottage
in suburbs they’re building.
For them there’s no shortage,
like gods they are living.

I’m set for all things:
for pogróms and destruction.
I’m beating the Yids
and I’m saving my Russia!