The following old
Jewish joke makes fun of Jewish congregational rivalry and splitting: :A Jew is rescued from a desert island after 20 years. The rescuers see his neat house and two beautiful synagogues. "Why two?" - they ask. - "In this synagogue I
daven, and that one, I never step my foot in." Folklorist
Alan Dundes notes that a desert island joke is a conventional setting for what he calls "international slurs". (among other scenarios). In this scenario, marooned people of several ethnicities act according to their purported ethnic stereotypes: ==See also==