We need to understand some Judeo-German to understand a joke by Guiditta. In Judeo-German (also in Polish Yiddish), the diminutive forms use the same linguistic construction as in Swabian. The diminutive form -le serves not only to indicate smallness but also to generalize. For example, das Land (the country) has a different emotional meaning. "Spatz" is a bird or a small pastry, today about the size of a bread roll, formerly much smaller. "Pätzle" is also a small piece of dough. "Schatz" is perhaps a number of coins. "Schätzel" is the