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Jewish humor / edited by Avner Ziv ; with a new introduction by the editor.
- Title
- Jewish humor / edited by Avner Ziv ; with a new introduction by the editor.
- Publication
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c1998.
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- Description
- 223 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Classics in communication and mass culture series
- Uniform Title
- Classics in communication and mass culture series.
- Alternative Title
- Jewish humor in America
- Subject
- Jewish wit and humor
- Note
- Originally published: Tel Aviv : Papyrus Pub. House at Tel-Aviv University, c1986.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-220) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction to the Transaction edition / Avner Ziv -- Shalom Aleichem's "On account of a hat" / Ruth Adler -- The Jew as comic: Lenny Bruce, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen / Joseph Dorinson -- Psycho-social aspects of Jewish humor in Israel and in the Diaspora / Avner Ziv -- Jewish jokes, anti-Semitic jokes and Hebredonian jokes / Christie Davies -- Gallows humor and Jewish humor: a reading of "The dance of Genghis Cohn" by Romain Gary / Judith Kauffmann -- Humor and sexism: the case of the Jewish joke / Esther Fuchs -- The rabbi versus the priest and other Jewish stories / Lawrence E. Mintz -- Halachic issues as satirical elements in nineteenth century Hebrew literature / Yehuda Friedlander -- Tevie the milkman - intertwining Jewish destiny and humor / Asher E. Rivlin -- Political satire in the Israeli theatre: another outlook on Zionism / David Alexander -- What? Humor? In the news? - How serious is the news on Israeli radio / I. Roeh and R. Nir -- Do Jews in Israel still laugh at themselves? / O. Nevo -- Political caricature as a reflection of Israel's development / Kariel Gardosh (Dosh).
- ISBN
- 1560009918 (paper : alk. paper)
- OCLC
- 37239023
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library