Self-hatred 101 today on Shtetl with Joseph Rosen, author of “In Defense of Self-Hatred”, and the young woman who wrote “Nice Jewish Boys” and “A Jewish Education” under the pseudonym Lick My Knish. Deconstructing a fav. Jewish pass time.
Tag Archives: self-hatred
Posted in Shortwave
Tagged Howard Stern, Joseph Rosen, Lick My Knish, Mile End Chavurah, self-hatred
I am a Jewish girl who has never dated a Jewish boy. I am a Jewish girl who has never been attracted to a Jewish boy. Anytime a man has dropped a Yiddish word or a Jewish summer camp reference in conversation, I have wanted to bolt. I have bolted. But why?
Read Joseph Rosen’s compelling defense of the age-old Jewish love for self-hatred. Is this a good thing? What is a “nomadic Jewish ethics” and how might it guide how we live morally, and, make the world laugh more?
Posted in Comedy
Tagged humour, nomadic ethics, Sarah Silverman, Seinfeld, self-hatred, Talmudic Graffiti, Woody Allen
