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# Wednesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/37454/
- Published: 2015-09-02T06:26:51.000Z
- Updated: 2015-09-02T06:26:51.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

![epstein2](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/epstein2.jpg)

After recounting all those Jewish jokes and the history of Jewish humor in the United States, Epstein offers this, I think, poignant observation: "\[A' epigraph from the English comic novelist Howard Jacobson: 'This is not the place to examine why I, a Jew, feel more threatened by those who would wipe out ethnic jokes than by those who unthinkingly make them. But it may be the place simply to record that I do.'"

I agree with that. Those who would kill ethnic jokes are those who would kill life itself in the name of ideology. Hence, I think, the source of Mr. Jacobson discomfit with such individuals.