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Through humor, the Jewish people were able to preserve their dignity and feel that they were still human beings, despite all the Nazi attempts to destroy in them every vestige of humanity. Jewish humor is a way of processing pain and suffering. In that magical moment in which the flash of a joke appears, hunger disappears, the soup kitchens, forced labor, typhus, the dead on the sidewalks, the black market, meal cards, deportations to the East, and the endless sufferings experienced for one reason only: to be a Jew.

Holocaust survivor and licensed therapist Karmela Waldman shares brutally honest advice about life and death—often deploying brutally sharp wit—with her son and podcast co-host, Joel Waldman.

Hawthorne presents several ideas which form the very core of the conservative critique: that man's sinfulness is an immutable part of his character; that rationalists, reformers, and progressives delude themselves with their utopian notions of the perfectibility of man; that in their delusion they do incalculable damage to the culture, while leaving human nature untouched; and that, no matter the "progress" they make, evil lurks, waiting to rear its ugly head and shatter their dreams.

A través del humor, el pueblo judío pudo conservar su dignidad y sentir que seguían siendo seres humanos a pesar de todos los intentos nazis de destruir en ellos todo vestigio de humanidad. El humor judío es una forma de procesamiento del dolor y del sufrimiento. En ese instante mágico en el que aparece el destello de un chiste, desaparecen el hambre, los comedores populares, los trabajos forzados, el tifus, los muertos en las veredas, el mercado negro, las tarjetas de comidas, las deportaciones al Este y el sinfín de sufrimientos experimentados por una sola razón: ser Judío.

In which our intrepid correspondent speaks about the holiday that features the best of all worlds: tryptophan poisoning and four story tall balloons careening off lampposts in downtown New York City.