What it was... what it is was 82 years after the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto

Perhaps it is a certain irreverence, demanding reader, to begin this note by telling him a Jewish joke, always warning him that the jokes that we Jews tell each other have a half-hidden humor, a sacrilegious irony, a self-flagelating spirit that sometimes only us...

By Paulo Slachevsky, editor of LOM editions, member of the Diana Aron Jewish Group. On April 19, 1943, resistant Jews rose up against the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto. Since the end of 1940, more than 400,000 Jews from the capital and other Polish towns and cities had been locked up and crowded there. Hunger, epidemics and deportations to the death camps had already exterminated many of their inhabitants. In January 43, a first armed uprising agai…