Shalom Auslander: Attic Call with Ira Glass

[fightpollution]

this is scary, the stories of my grandparents, my grandfather was in a concentration camp, I do get the need to discuss and attempt various representations of the Holocaust, but this seems undeveloped unlike the graphic novel Maus, maybe i just don't see it and am uninitiated in these authors, could someone better explain what is going on here?

[JoshG983]

@fightpollution It's called Jewish humor. It's fateful and melancholic. It has been practiced since the time of Jonah (the guy in the whale) and it was also practiced in the Warsaw Ghetto. It's a way of critiquing yourself and the world and making evil, which is inevitable part of the world, a bit more bearable.

[fightpollution]

@JoshG983 I guess it registered more fateful and melancholic than humorous - I know Jewish humour for sure, maybe i am just wary of how this will be interpreted or used as entertainment outside Jewish culture - but maybe that is not for me to say