{"product_id":"9781628976595","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW Witz by Joshua Cohen","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 17\/09\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Joshua Cohen-winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize-comes one of the great comic epics of our time, newly restored in this definitive edition.   On Christmas Eve, 1999, all the Jews in the world die in a strange, millennial plague, with the exception of the firstborn males, who are soon adopted by a cabal of powerful people in the American government. By the following Passover, however, only one is still alive: Benjamin Israelien; a kindly, innocent, ignorant man-child. As he rapidly ascends to international fame, Jewishness becomes all the rage: matzo-ball soup is in every bowl, sidelocks are hip; while Israelien, the only truly Jewish Jew left, is increasingly stigmatized for refusing to perform his religion. Since his very existence exposes the illegitimacy of the newly converted, Israelien becomes a wanted man just as quickly as he had become a famous one.   Elsewhere, in the not-too-distant future of our own, \"real\" world, another last Jew-the last living Holocaust survivor-sits snowbound in his Manhattan apartment, telling jokes that he only half-remembers. A final, melancholy witness, attempting to find the punch line for a century. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369051697525,"sku":"9781628976595","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781628976595","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}