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Kishon für Steuerzahler
Oštrica je uperena ka problemima poreza, međusobnom preganjanju obveznika i državnih Kerbera, ukazujući na svu apsurdnost pojedinih zakonskih mera u toj oblasti.
- GenresHumor
First published January 1, 1991
About the author
Ephraim Kishon
268 books164 followersEphraim Kishon (Hebrew: אפרים קישון) was an Israeli writer, satirist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director.
Born into a middle-class Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, as Ferenc Hoffmann (Hungarian Hoffmann Ferenc), Kishon studied sculpture and painting, and then began publishing humorous essays and writing for the stage.
During World War II the Nazis imprisoned him in several concentration camps. At one camp his chess talent helped him survive as the camp commandant was looking for an opponent. In another camp the Germans lined up the inmates shooting every tenth person, passing him by. He later wrote in his book The Scapegoat, "They made a mistake—they left one satirist alive." He managed to escape while being transported to the Sobibor death camp in Poland, and hid the remainder of the war disguised as "Stanko Andras", a Slovakian laborer.
After 1945 he changed his surname from Hoffmann to Kishont to disguise his Jewish heritage and returned to Hungary to study art and publish humorous plays. He immigrated to Israel in 1949 to escape the Communist regime, and an immigration officer gave him the name Ephraim Kishon.
His first marriage, in 1946 to Eva (Chawa) Klamer, ended in divorce. In 1959, he married his second wife Sara (née Lipovitz), who died in 2002. In 2003, he married the Austrian writer Lisa Witasek. He had three children: Raphael (b. 1957), Amir (b. 1963), and Renana (b. 1968).
Bulgarian Profile.
Born into a middle-class Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, as Ferenc Hoffmann (Hungarian Hoffmann Ferenc), Kishon studied sculpture and painting, and then began publishing humorous essays and writing for the stage.
During World War II the Nazis imprisoned him in several concentration camps. At one camp his chess talent helped him survive as the camp commandant was looking for an opponent. In another camp the Germans lined up the inmates shooting every tenth person, passing him by. He later wrote in his book The Scapegoat, "They made a mistake—they left one satirist alive." He managed to escape while being transported to the Sobibor death camp in Poland, and hid the remainder of the war disguised as "Stanko Andras", a Slovakian laborer.
After 1945 he changed his surname from Hoffmann to Kishont to disguise his Jewish heritage and returned to Hungary to study art and publish humorous plays. He immigrated to Israel in 1949 to escape the Communist regime, and an immigration officer gave him the name Ephraim Kishon.
His first marriage, in 1946 to Eva (Chawa) Klamer, ended in divorce. In 1959, he married his second wife Sara (née Lipovitz), who died in 2002. In 2003, he married the Austrian writer Lisa Witasek. He had three children: Raphael (b. 1957), Amir (b. 1963), and Renana (b. 1968).
Bulgarian Profile.
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July 19, 2019
„-Pa, zašto onda ja, magarac plaćam porez do zadnjeg groša?
- Nemam pojma. Možda ipak niste sasvim pri sebi?
- Možda. Upravo sam ovih dana bio kod liječnika.
- I što vam je rekao?
- Plaćanje u gotovu, bez računa.
- Jasno. Prijavite ga pa ćete biti oslobođeni deset posto poreza.“
Očekivala sam ipak više smijeha od ove knjige...
- Nemam pojma. Možda ipak niste sasvim pri sebi?
- Možda. Upravo sam ovih dana bio kod liječnika.
- I što vam je rekao?
- Plaćanje u gotovu, bez računa.
- Jasno. Prijavite ga pa ćete biti oslobođeni deset posto poreza.“
Očekivala sam ipak više smijeha od ove knjige...
June 28, 2022
“Nije fer, Davide” spada u moje omiljene knjige iz detinjstva. Kada sam videla Priručnik u prodavnici an aerodromu, kupila sam ga bez pitanja. Par satira je prvorazredno, ostatak je ok, sam kraj malo razvucen i nezanimljiv.
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