They say that comedy is tragedy plus time. That sagacious view of how temporal gaps can allow us to joke about cataclysmic events that were anything but funny to those who experienced them informs the ...

The world lost one of its great comic artists last month. I am referring not to Johnny Carson, who was little known outside of the United States, but to Israeli satirist Ephraim Kishon, 80, who, ...

Unbowed by the horrors of the Holocaust, Ephraim Kishon immigrated to Israel and become his adopted country’s most beloved humorist. But Kishon died in semi-exile Saturday at 80, driven back to Europe ...

Ephraim Kishon, a Holocaust survivor who became one of Israel’s best-known humorists with his satirical books and movies, died in Switzerland on Jan. 29 of an apparent heart attack. He was 80. Kishon ...

A smal silver plaque is set on the stuccoed wall outside the front gate of 48 Hamitnadev Street in Tel Aviv, informing passersby that “Ephraim Kishon, the author, satirist, playwright, screenwriter ...

Best-selling humorist Ephraim Kishon, a Holocaust survivor who captured Israel’s foibles in biting satires, has died. He was 80. Kishon, who won the Israel Prize for lifetime achievement in 2003, died ...

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Ephraim Kishon, novelist, playwright, journalist and filmmaker, has died aged 80 in Switzerland. He was loved in Germany as much as in his adopted homeland of Israel for his acerbic wit. Kishon ...