Sunday, July 8, 2018

Chelm Jokes: An Analysis by JTA's Andrew Silow-Carroll


There's more to many Jewish jokes than meets the eye. Andrew Silow-Carroll, editor-in-chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency has started a series of short YouTube videos in which he walks you through a classic Jewish joke and explains what it's all about.

This first video analyzes the jokes (actually stories) about the Wise Men of Chelm, an actual town in Poland that has become synonymous with so-called wisdom which actually turns out to be foolishness.

We'll bring you more of these analyses of classic Jewish jokes from time to time. We hope there will be more of them soon.

Enjoy!

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1 comment:

  1. PABLO NTuesday, August 14, 2018 at 1:09:00 PM EDT

    i love been a Chelemer descendant,
    don't you?
    In order to have the ocean close by my Zeide would place hering by the window, ha ha
    Building space in Chelm the town decided to push a mountain to make space so they stated and worked and worked until someone turned and realize that he couldn't see his jacket anymore jubilant he announced how far have they moved the mountain ups the clothes had been robbed ha ha

    Finally the butcher committed a crime that needed to be punished problem there was only one butcher ah but there were 2 taylors (like my Zeide) so they punished 1 of the taylors, ha ha

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