I collect books. I own several shelves of books about great Jewish leaders and gedolim which ... I got a tap on the shoulder. I felt like I wasn’t alone in the big scheme of things.

Jewish Comedy: A Serious History. By Jeremy Dauber. W.W. Norton & Company; 364 pages; $28.95. The Jewish Joke. By Devorah Baum. Profile Books ... A little Jewish boy shrugs, opens his palms ...

A slight shoulder shrug. The way you clasp your hands ... Dictionary of Nonverbal Communication” (Routledge, 2021). The book is presented as a series of chapters with alphabetical entries ...