Far more than an exercise in oy-veying and kvetching, the Jewish joke is a vital strategy for survival in a bleak and hostile world

A relentlessly hostile critic of Israel, Oxfam are destroying the second-hand book trade in the UK

Howard Jacobson could only have produced his attack on anti-Zionism in The Finkler Question as a book. I don't mean that as a novelist he was highly unlikely to write it as anything else, but that the book trade provides the last,

The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson