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Once upon a time in a small village a poor unfortunate man lived with his mother, his wife, and his six children in a little one-room hut. Because they were so crowded, the man and his wife often…
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Margot Zemach
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1977
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[…] There I am, a kid in Chicago. Not from a particularly religious family. On top of the world, in the middle of the middle class. Ten years old and an only child. The war over half a decade and the…
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Stanley Elkin
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Funks Grove, United States of America
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1987
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Hershele:For a long time . . . The first evening that you were with us, on Hanuka . . . you said that . . . that Freydenyu . . . my wife’s niece . . . that . . .
Mischief:What could I have said…
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Jacob Gordin
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1900
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Irving Berlin
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1915
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The Painter had a different personality. A tiny Polish Jew, he was famous as a creator of wonderful whimsical animals. He said:
“For my part I wanted to use stained glass. But the architect says we…
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Paul Goodman
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New York, United States of America
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1949
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[ . . . ] Modern Jewish humor grows from the tension of having to reconcile a belief as absolute as Elijah’s with an experience of failure as absolute as that of the priests of Baal…
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Ruth R. Wisse
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Chicago, United States of America
(Canada)
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1971
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Translated by Noa Stollman.
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Etgar Keret
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Somerville, United States of America
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
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2000
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Leslie Kimmelman
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Morton Grove, United States of America
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2000
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At the end, after the thermonuclear war between the Djanks and Druzhkies, in consequence of which they had destroyed themselves, and, madly, all other inhabitants of the earth, God spoke through a…
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Bernard Malamud
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1982