The dark side of America – Tuvia Tenenbom, author of “Catch the Jew!” and “I Sleep in Hitler’s Room” sits down for a frank chat with Israel Hayom • His new book, “The Lies They Tell,” exposes the real America, the one where racism and anti-Semitism lurk just beneath the surface. | Israelhayom

Tuvia Tenenbom is a funny man. I am not the first to describe him as such. Behind the jokes and sarcasm, however, is an undercurrent of anxiety. Anyone who has read his recent travelogues knows he has taken a thankless task upon himself: village idiot, court jester, who in his profound wisdom deploys humor to reveal the existential truth cloaked by daily life. “I’m the foreign observer,” he tells me, “and like the classic Jew I am a nomad, living here and there and everywhere. I am a resident of Germany, and I have Israeli and American citizenship. But I am a Jew who cares about Jews and I am not ashamed of that.”