Has anyone seen the Coen brothers' latest movie, A Serious Man?We saw it last week-end in our Upper West Side movie theatre. The story opens with a Yiddish language prologue, which many in the audience seemed to understand--leading me to an obvious conclusion: the audience was largely Jewish and found the movie [a Job story] very funny. And it is--it guess. It's a satire.On the other hand, I felt uncomfortable and uncertain about the humor, which rests on a multitude of stereotypes about Jews, about rabbis, and a few about gentiles. I couldn't really laugh.If you saw the movie, what was your reaction?

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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