How to Be a Jew ... And an Accidental Gunslinger

Unorthodox by Tablet Magazine

Mar 12, 202532:58Religion & Spirituality

Salvador Litvak, also known as the Accidental Talmudist, is the filmmaker behind the 2005 cult classic When Do We Eat and the author of Let My People Laugh: The Greatest Jewish Jokes of All Time!. He joins us to discuss...

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