Deribasovskaya is good weather ... Jewish humor of Odessa emigrants

Antosha Chekhonte once said that only in Greece there is everything. But if you need a little more than “everything” - then this is in Odessa. She is an annewed city, a city-myth, adventure city. You say: “Well, not everyone managed to be born a Jew! And if yes, now few people remember the times when the opinion of the rabbi was the truth in the last instance. Those times have sunk into oblivion! Together with the ancient Greeks. Times may have sunk. Where did the Greeks go? Yes to Odessa! And the Greeks, and the Jews, and Moldovans, and Russians, and Ukrainians, and another twentieth nations, from which Jewish humor took all the best and secret! The legendary Golda Meir once said: Pessimism is a luxury that Jews cannot afford. And in order to be an optimist in our difficult time, it is vital to look at the world more often through the prism of humor. And best of all, if this prism is from Odessa