David Baddiel
David Baddiel is a comedian and writer whose latest book is Jews Don't Count
No prizes for writing a column about not rising above no prize
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...
I love the sound, the smell, the gluttony and kitsch of Xmas
My Christmas has nothing to do with Jesus, it’s about nostalgia and comfort
Do the right thing before you leave, please, Angela
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
I’m half-German. But is going full German a step too far for me?
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
Jewish comedy is Jew comedy — it’s all about the J word
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
Being Jewish is an ethnicity, so let’s all sing the Jew Blues
My sense of Jewishness as an ethnicity is to some extent about what Nazis did to us
I did not expect my book to help people overcome shame
One thing about shame, of course, is that it’s closely related to fear
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