"Rich like a Rothschild" asks Jews what they would do if they were as rich as Baron Rothschild, the legendary financier whose daughters took piano lessons from Frederic Chopin. I first read the Polish version of this book in Warsaw. It was the first collection of Jewish humor printed in democratic Poland since the collapse of Communism in 1989. Jews were persecuted in Europe for centuries. Many fled to Poland, where they found freedom of worship. By 1850, more than three quarters of all Jews in the world lived inside the borders of old Poland (before it had been partitioned between Russia,...