“Metaphorically speaking, two nations emerged from the ashes of Auschwitz: a minority who assert, “This must never happen again,” and a frightened and haunted majority who assert, “This must never happen to us again.”   

(Prof. Yehuda Elkana, ‘The Need to Forget’)

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“I always wondered what The Jewish Humor is, in fact,”

 “What do you think?” he asks.

“I think It’s a kind of a way to shout.”  I reply.  

(Roman Gary, ‘The dance of Genghis Cohn’)

 

 

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