Is It Good for the Jews?

More Stories from the Old Country and the New

By: Adam Biro, Catherine Tihanyi (Translator)

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Hardcover | 1 October 2009 | Edition Number 1

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152 Pages

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"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 tales--"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 tales--some new, some old, but all finely wrought and rich in humor--Biro 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 absurd--yet familiar--situations, 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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"In applying an Old World sensibility to the present, the author underscores the nature of the divide between them, and the increasingly despairing punch line of each joke seems to become: Why did You abandon us?" - New Yorker"

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