6/29/2023 0 Comments Portnoys complaint![]() ![]() “Ah, but Naomi, maybe that’s the best kind.”Passages like this were bound to offend Jews, and especially Jews no longer charmed by the self-deprecating humor of Yiddishkeit. Portnoy,” she said, raising her knapsack from the floor, “you are nothing but a self-hating Jew.” By dawn I had been made to understand that I was the epitome of what was most shameful in “the culture of the Diaspora.” Those centuries and centuries of homelessness had produced just such disagreeable men as myself – frightened, defensive, self-deprecating, unmanned and corrupted by life in the gentile world. Not much love in that remark, I’ll tell you. “Oh, I don’t know,” I said, “self-deprecation is, after all, a classic form of Jewish humor.” In some little way or other, everything is ironical, or self-deprecating.” I don’t believe you actually want to improve your life.Įverything you say is somehow always twisted, some way or another, to come out ‘ funny.’ All day long the same thing. You seem to take some special pleasure, some pride, in making yourself the butt of your own peculiar sense of humor. “ The way you disapprove of your life! Why do you do that? It is of no value for a man to disapprove of his life the way that you do. ![]() NOTE! Consider delaying until first div on page ![]() ![]() (function (a, d, o, r, i, c, u, p, w, m) Portnoy’s Jewish complaint - The Jerusalem Post ![]()
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