These stories are mostly cutting and funny & mostly Jewish American.
A.V. Laider, Max Beerbohm
The Dead Fiddler, Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Jewbird, Bernard Malamud
A Silver Dish, Saul Bellow
Action Will Be Taken, Heinrich Boll
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, Tadeusz Borowski
Children on Their Birthdays, Truman Capote
Henne Fire, Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Old System, Saul Bellow
I found them in three anthologies:
The World of the Short Story, Clifton Fadiman,
The Art of the Tale, Daniel Halpern
Jewish-American Stories, Irving Howe
Read any of these? If you have half an hour, you can. If you are Jewish, you might get more out of these stories than any other random story Oprah suggested.
If you wanna talk stories you can comment here.
For a short one I really liked "Action Will Be Taken". It's a very funny satirical comment on corporate culture.
The Borowski story on the Holocaust is the most intense & sad story I've ever read.
The Singer stories feature hysterical women and the supernatural. No fainting or sanatoriums here.
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