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February 16, 2015

Doctors, Jokes, and the Secret of Jewish Humor

Doctors, writes Aaron Rothstein, have a penchant for dark humor, cracking jokes in the face of death, suffering, and disease. Rothstein turns to the history of Jewish comedy to understand why this is so:

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