British Jews have always been self-effacing, but we’re starting to show our chutzpah | Hadley Freeman

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As David Baddiel says, Jewishness in the US has an aura of cool, whereas in the UK it ‘smacks of the suburbs’ – Brooklyn v Stanmore

There were British Jewish jokes, but we told them among ourselves, not in the mainstream. New York might not reflect the US, but even the most mainstream of American TV shows, Friends, had Ross and Monica Geller, and theJewish guilt, I knew: that cliched Jewish characteristic of feeling guilty about everything, from masturbation to not calling your mother. But it wasn’t until I moved to Britain that I encountered Jewish shame – people who were actually ashamed of being Jewish.

 

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