Only Jews know how to tell jokes. Only Jews had the art of laughing at the right moment. Only Jews had the ability to formulate, in a few words, a punch line that tickles your subconscious. The short story as a Jewish art: Kerr, Kraus, Kafka; aphoristic thought: Hein, Freud. With ghetto hu₩our to laugh off the spectrum of the pogrom 俄.有計畫的屠殺
Fine writers do psychoanalysis
“All language is but a poor translation.”
Frank Kafka, Die Zürauer Aphorismen, The Zürau Aphorisms, published posthumously in 1931
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