Research Catalog

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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Additional Authors

• Spalding, Henry D.
• Ziv, Avner.
• Ziv, Avner

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