Is It Good for the Jews?
More Stories from the Old Country and the New
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About this book
"Jewish stories," writes Adam Biro, "resemble every people's stories." Yet at the same time there is no better way to understand the soul, history, millennial suffering, or, crucially, the joys of the Jewish people than through such talesâ"There's nothing," writes Biro, "more revelatory of the Jewish being."
With Is It Good for the Jews? Biro offers a sequel to his acclaimed collection of stories Two Jews on a Train. Through twenty-nine talesâsome new, some old, but all finely wrought and rich in humorâBiro spins stories of characters coping with the vicissitudes and reverses of daily life, while simultaneously painting a poignant portrait of a world of unassimilated Jewish life that has largely been lost to the years. From rabbis competing to see who is the most humble, to the father who uses suicide threats to pressure his children into visiting, to three men berated by the Almighty himself for playing poker, Biro populates his stories with memorable characters and absurdâyet familiarâsituations, all related with a dry wit and spry prose style redolent of the long tradition of Jewish storytelling.
A collection simultaneously of foibles and fables, adversity and affection, Is It Good for the Jews? reminds us that if in the beginning was the word, then we can surely be forgiven for expecting a punch line to follow one of these days.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Translator's Acknowledgments
- 1. In Lieu of an Epigraph: A Brief Story Containing within Itself All the Following Ones
- 2. The Officer's Ring
- 3. In Praise of Anti-Semites
- 4. Of Humility
- 5. Okulåré
- 6. Of Wisdom
- 7. Of Children
- 8. Wailing
- 9. Of Education
- 10. Of Numbers
- 11. Thirsty for More
- 12. Of Privileges
- 13. Environment
- 14. Of Strength (of Conviction)
- 15. In English in the Text
- 16. A Witz for All Seasons
- 17. Of Jews and of Others
- 18. Di Ganef, Di Willst Davenen!
- 19. Assimilation
- 20. You Can't Escape Your Fate
- 21. Two Geopolitical Lessons
- 22. In Someone Else's Shoes
- 23. He Who Hunts
- 24. The World of Business
- 25. Games of Chance
- 26. The Emigrant
- 27. Of Money, Still
- 28. Of Us, and Them, of Them and Us
- 29. The Negotiation
- Afterword