In Russia itself, I'm more likely to be considered a Chechen terrorist or a Hasidic Jew (both comments made by my grandmothers, concerned I might be beaten up or arrested).
Best, Joe Dear Joe, I confess I had no idea who you were when your letter first arrived, but having looked you up, I discover that though you are a lesser Jew than me – la chose juive c'est aussi importante que la chose génitale (as Charcot would say – there might be some $$$$ in my extravagantly parenthesised bons mots reaching a wider audience).
Yet still I find I am a remarkable Jew.
Gellburg boasts that he is the only Jew in his firm, ignoring the fact that his boss displays the casual antisemitism of the period.
The League Managers Association stepped up in August to comment on Malky Mackay's "gay snake", "fkn chinky" and "fat Jew" texts, issuing the year's defining press release phrase: "These were two text messages sent in private at a time Malky felt under great pressure and when he was letting off steam to a friend, during some friendly text message banter".
One email began in a moderate tone – "Let us hope the public spending cuts in higher education put a speedy end to your career" – before descending into bigotry: "Perhaps that money-lending Jew will find you a job in gratitude after you did his spade work".
Other points of interest from this week's episode We've talked quite a bit about the possible stereotyping of Levi as the only recognisable Jew.
The plot is relatively simple, centring on the fact that Vinz, the angry young Jew, has got hold of a gun stolen from the police.
"My father's mother was a secular Jew who died in Auschwitz," he says.
I've often mentioned a well-known joke from the last decade of the Soviet Union, but it couldn't be more apposite: Rabinovitch, a Jew, wants to emigrate.
Exploration of half-shades isn't part of Tarantino's mission statement – though the opening scene of Inglourious Basterds (with Waltz as a villainous "Jew hunter") at least invited audiences to consider the possibility that they would give up Jewish fugitives to save their own skins.
