This book is one of a kind. It is written in the new literary genre of the aphorism-couple. The author of the book and the creator of this genre, the satirical poet Grigory Gash, has long been known to foreign readers. His paradoxical, witty and very elegant aphorisms are repeated in America, Germany, Israel and in all countries where Russian speech is heard. “Grigory Gash is an unusual phenomenon in Russian literature. Everything he writes, from couplets to poems, is very talented and original. The genre of ironic poetry is extremely difficult. Few people manage to master it perfectly. Grigory Gash is one of the few who did it perfectly. In the book JOKES OF THE ELDERDS OF ZION, nugget finds pour in as if from a cornucopia, and all of them are of the highest quality. This is a mixture of irony and philosophy, rare in beauty and taste.” Galina Pedakhovskaya, academician of the Western European Academy of Culture and Art (Dusseldorf, Germany)