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The witticisms widespread in Jewish communities embody commonplaces of anti-Semitism. A
kind of catharsis occurs and people laugh at their own fears. Freud's words 'I do not know whether there are many other instances of a people making fun to such a degree of its own character' are still valid today. The author looks at the mother as the metaphor of Judaism.