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Witz by Joshua Cohen Discount Named one of the BestOn Christmas Eve 1999, all the Jews in the world die in a strange, millennial plague, with the exception of the firstborn males, who are soon adopted by a cabal of powerful people in the American government. By the following Passover, however, only one is still alive: Benjamin Israelien; a kindly, innocent, ignorant man child. As he finds himself transformed into an international superstar, Jewishness becomes all the rage: matzo ball soup is in every