Jews and Humor /
"Jews and humor is, for most people, a natural and felicitous collocation. In spite of, or perhaps because of, a history of crises and living on the edge, Jews have often created or resorted to humor. But what is "humor"? And what makes certain types, instances, or performances of hum...
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| Language: | English |
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West Lafayette, Indiana :
Purdue University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Studies in Jewish civilization ;
v. 22. Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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Table of Contents:
- Humor in the Bible / Charles David Isbell
- Why did the widow have a goat in her bed? : Jewish humor and its roots in the Talmud and Midrash / David Brodsky
- But is it funny? : identifying humor, satire, and parody in rabbinic literature / Eliezer Diamond
- Masekhet Purim / Peter J. Haas
- Jewish humor as a source of research on Polish-Jewish relations / Joanna Sliwa
- Jewish jokes, Yiddish storytelling, and Sholem Aleichem : a discursive approach / Jordan Finkin
- Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Karl : immigrant humor and the Depression / Leonard M. Helfgott
- Nuances and subtleties in Jewish film humor / Michael W. Rubinoff
- The bad girls of Jewish comedy : gender, class, assimilation, and whiteness in Postwar America / Giovanna P. Del Negro
- One clove away from a pomander ball : the subversive tradition of Jewish female comedians / Joyce Antler
- Heckling the divine : Woody Allen, the Book of Job, and Jewish theology after the Holocaust / Jason Kalman
- Tragicomedy and zikkaron in Mel Brooks's "To be or not to be" / Joan Latchaw and David Peterson
- "They ain't makin' Jews like Jesus anymore" : the musical humor of Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys in historical and geographical perspective / Theodore Albrecht
- The new Jewish blackface : African American tropes in contemporary Jewish humor / David Gillota.