The Story of the Jews - BBC2

[Dandyman]

So are they going to talk about the differences between smooth and crunchy or not ?

It's one of the great Talmudic debates.

 

[Buzzer]

That is EXACTLY the song I heard in my head when I saw this thread! Top marks for remembering the band too.

I have the extended 12" where Pete Wylie talks about pocketbook philosophers and then goes on to wax lyrical with a Sal Paradis quote "the city intellectuals of the world..." Great song nonetheless.

In answer to the thread title it reminds me of the classic epigram: How odd of God to choose the Jews (William Norman Ewer) and the riposte from Leo Rosten: Not odd of God, Goyim annoy 'im

 

[Leighgull]

I learned recently that my Grandmother was Jewish but was totally ashamed of it. We always thought we were Catholics.

I'm terrible with money too.

 

[Dandyman]

I learned recently that my Grandmother was Jewish but was totally ashamed of it. We always thought we were Catholics.

I'm terrible with money too.

One of the oddities of 1930's Germany was the number of both Protestant and Roman Catholic Jews:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischling

 

[Buzzer]

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Viennese Protestant Jew who allegedly and unwittingly was the catalyst for Hitler's anti-semi roam by being much cleverer than him in their classes at school.

 

[El Presidente]

I saw a jewish bloke get knocked down by a bus yesterday , I raced over, put my coat underneath his head and asked if he was comfortable ? He replied............... "I make a living ", I'll get my coat.

Zing!