David Baddiel is a comedian and writer whose latest book is Jews Don't Count
Other types of Jewish humour are available says David Baddiel
The answer lies in the longstanding misguided and racist assumption by TV commissioners that the only people who would be interested in a show about Jews would be other Jews
Nothing proves the ‘horse shoe theory’ of politics better than the way the Ukrainian president has been questioned by far right and far left on the basis of his background and identity
I did think that a best-selling book about Jews, written by a Jew and with Jew in the title, might be shortlisted for the only Jewish book prize. But I forgot that I don’t win prizes...
My Christmas has nothing to do with Jesus, it’s about nostalgia and comfort
It is wrong that Germany refuses to pay reparations for businesses and property stolen by the Nazis if that property happened to be in areas that were no longer German after the war
If I took out citizenship to avoid the airport queues, I would be a German, American, Welsh Jew — which history shows might make me too much of a rootless cosmopolitan
The word ‘Jew’ describes who we are — but it’s a signal of racism, as well as being the foundation of much of the self-deprecation that is the basis of traditional Jewish comedy
My sense of Jewishness as an ethnicity is to some extent about what Nazis did to us
One thing about shame, of course, is that it’s closely related to fear
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