Your writing, and just knowing someone with your perspective is out there, is one of the salves that has gotten me through the year. And not to be nit-picky, but I believe Maya Rudolph is in fact Jewish on her father's side.
Thank you for your sweet words. I'm glad my writing is a bit of a help. On the other front ... hahaha. OK ... apparently Rudolph is patrilineally Jewish but I'm seeing that Nathan Lane is Catholic to the core but calls himself an "honorary Jew." I'll edit Maya out (or in, as the case may be)!
I live in Israel. Just come and step off the plane, and all stereotypes disappear. There are rich and poor Jews, fat Jews, black Hews, smart , stupid and in between. Also, Jewish humor here does have its dark side.
Another brilliant insightful piece, chuckling at Jews is profound, thank you.
The founder of Kellogg's corn flakes manifested the need for circumcision in America.
I've seen pictures of anti circumcision events where people march wearing t-shirts alluding to and lamenting the Jews for circumcision along with bellowing it loudly. Haven't looked into the Kellogg claim but heard it several times from Gavin McInnes, he was on with Roseanne recently many nuggets to discern from a four hour podcast.
What ya didn't say explicitly is that chews 're funny BECAUSE of tragedy! (which ain't a joke).
FUNNY is a coping mechanism that started with copin' with all the trials / tribulations of life as joos an' expanded (in times of relative peace!) to copin' with far less dire troubles (taxes! a boring spouse! doin' dishes!)...
Also, imitation & mockery are one good way ta make yer velly real enemy seem FAR less intimidatin'!--
ps Maya Rudolph is half jooish! Her father Richard Rudolph was a known musician ;-)
pps many of us DO look a lot like the Three Stooges --EXCEPT not Curly Joe (top left) the only non-jooish one! (of all the photos you could'a picked...?!) I DO find it funny in all yer good intentions ya managed to show only 2 chewish stooges an' one French Canadian--notta joo. An honest mistake no worries. Curly Joe (de Rita) was most short lived an' least liked Stooge--that's yer boy/goy on the left. Notta joo, not nearly as funny as the other boys, thankfully quickly replaced (Oy.)
All of the jooish stooges were (imho) adorable and insane an' I wanted THEM ALL ta be my fambly! They DO look like my fambly (some even had hair like Larry's!)
FWIW... non-jooish stooge Curly Joe DeRita is the one on the LEFT in yer pix. In the original group it was Moe, Larry & Shemp -- but originally left the group when manager Ted Healey (notta joo, also a drunk) screwed them ovuh as manager--then Curly (lil' bro of Shemp & Moe) stepped in but then he had a heart attack & died! Enter Curly Joe (temp. replacement... not so hot) Thankfully he was the most short-lived member! After him Shemp returned but then he hadda heart attack an' died at 60. THEN Joe Besser came in (a joo too/funny but not as good as Curly or Shemp imho) Shemp Howard (Moe's bro) was my favorite "third stooge" -- his face was like silly putty!-- Curly was also a hoot (he of the falsetto imitations.)
What I find interestin' is that we E. European joos are (imho) the funniest ones b/c of pale of settlement + holocaust (AND the entire E. Euro history of the badchin (the professional jester at weddin's datin' back ta the Middle Ages! when we were burned in our synagogues fer poisonin' the wells). From thence came the tummler!
If we weren't all laffin' we'd be cryin'--ditto today...
The stereotypes you listed were the nicer ones.... they git a LOT worse...
Thanks. Yes, I hesitated to write about this. It’s an unprovable phenomenon but I have seen it enough to recognize it. After I published it, I remembered more examples from popular culture, situations where just invoking a Jewish term like “bar mitzvah” is a laugh line.
Your writing, and just knowing someone with your perspective is out there, is one of the salves that has gotten me through the year. And not to be nit-picky, but I believe Maya Rudolph is in fact Jewish on her father's side.
Thank you for your sweet words. I'm glad my writing is a bit of a help. On the other front ... hahaha. OK ... apparently Rudolph is patrilineally Jewish but I'm seeing that Nathan Lane is Catholic to the core but calls himself an "honorary Jew." I'll edit Maya out (or in, as the case may be)!
I can't thank you enough.
💪🏻🇮🇱♥️🇩🇰
This one almost made me cry. So upsetting to take everything- positive, neutral, everything- and make it something to hate people for.
I live in Israel. Just come and step off the plane, and all stereotypes disappear. There are rich and poor Jews, fat Jews, black Hews, smart , stupid and in between. Also, Jewish humor here does have its dark side.
My post about humor in Israel:
https://open.substack.com/pub/liba/p/why-are-we-laughing-if-its-not-funny?r=fxgvw&utm_medium=ios
Another brilliant insightful piece, chuckling at Jews is profound, thank you.
The founder of Kellogg's corn flakes manifested the need for circumcision in America.
I've seen pictures of anti circumcision events where people march wearing t-shirts alluding to and lamenting the Jews for circumcision along with bellowing it loudly. Haven't looked into the Kellogg claim but heard it several times from Gavin McInnes, he was on with Roseanne recently many nuggets to discern from a four hour podcast.
THANK YOU! an' good pernts all!
What ya didn't say explicitly is that chews 're funny BECAUSE of tragedy! (which ain't a joke).
FUNNY is a coping mechanism that started with copin' with all the trials / tribulations of life as joos an' expanded (in times of relative peace!) to copin' with far less dire troubles (taxes! a boring spouse! doin' dishes!)...
Also, imitation & mockery are one good way ta make yer velly real enemy seem FAR less intimidatin'!--
to wit:
https://tomlehrersongs.com/wernher-von-braun/
ps Maya Rudolph is half jooish! Her father Richard Rudolph was a known musician ;-)
pps many of us DO look a lot like the Three Stooges --EXCEPT not Curly Joe (top left) the only non-jooish one! (of all the photos you could'a picked...?!) I DO find it funny in all yer good intentions ya managed to show only 2 chewish stooges an' one French Canadian--notta joo. An honest mistake no worries. Curly Joe (de Rita) was most short lived an' least liked Stooge--that's yer boy/goy on the left. Notta joo, not nearly as funny as the other boys, thankfully quickly replaced (Oy.)
All of the jooish stooges were (imho) adorable and insane an' I wanted THEM ALL ta be my fambly! They DO look like my fambly (some even had hair like Larry's!)
FWIW... non-jooish stooge Curly Joe DeRita is the one on the LEFT in yer pix. In the original group it was Moe, Larry & Shemp -- but originally left the group when manager Ted Healey (notta joo, also a drunk) screwed them ovuh as manager--then Curly (lil' bro of Shemp & Moe) stepped in but then he had a heart attack & died! Enter Curly Joe (temp. replacement... not so hot) Thankfully he was the most short-lived member! After him Shemp returned but then he hadda heart attack an' died at 60. THEN Joe Besser came in (a joo too/funny but not as good as Curly or Shemp imho) Shemp Howard (Moe's bro) was my favorite "third stooge" -- his face was like silly putty!-- Curly was also a hoot (he of the falsetto imitations.)
What I find interestin' is that we E. European joos are (imho) the funniest ones b/c of pale of settlement + holocaust (AND the entire E. Euro history of the badchin (the professional jester at weddin's datin' back ta the Middle Ages! when we were burned in our synagogues fer poisonin' the wells). From thence came the tummler!
If we weren't all laffin' we'd be cryin'--ditto today...
The stereotypes you listed were the nicer ones.... they git a LOT worse...
Danke fer bein' a friend've da joos! REALLY!
Thanks. Yes, I hesitated to write about this. It’s an unprovable phenomenon but I have seen it enough to recognize it. After I published it, I remembered more examples from popular culture, situations where just invoking a Jewish term like “bar mitzvah” is a laugh line.