A Joke to Start the Day - "The Eulogy"

It's another Monday and time for another Joke to Start the Week. This week we're doing something a little bit different. We're sharing a joke told entirely in Yiddish, with English subtitles. 

It’s widely known that Eastern European Jews have a traditional, ironic brand of humor.

You can hear it clearly in this anecdote told by Ruth Kohn, a professional Yiddish translator and interpreter, at a talent show held at the annual “Yiddish Vokh” in Copake, NY. 

Here's the setup: Long ago in a shtetl, a man passed away, who happened to have been very nasty. No one liked him, he didn't have any family, was all alone in the world. But someone needs to eulogize him. And then...

Enjoy!