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Dauber, Jeremy Asher.
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Jewish wit and humor -- History and criticism.
Jews -- Humor.
Jews -- Social life and customs.
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Dauber, Jeremy Asher.
Jewish wit and humor -- History and criticism.
Jews -- Humor.
Jews -- Social life and customs.
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Jewish
comedy
: a
serious
history
/ Jeremy Dauber.
by
Dauber, Jeremy Asher.
W.W. Norton & Company, 2017.
Call #:
809.79352 D235j
Subjects
Jewish
wit and humor --
History
and criticism.
Jews -- Humor.
Jews -- Social life and customs.
ISBN:
9780393247879 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
xviii, 364 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-341) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: A joke, two definitions, seven themes, four warnings, and another joke -- What's so funny about anti-semitism? -- Not-so-nice
Jewish
doctors -- The wit of the Jews -- A view from the bottom -- The divine
comedy
-- The tale of the folk --
Jewish
comedy--hold the Jewishness.
Summary:
"A rich account of
Jewish
humor: its nature, its development, and its vital role throughout
Jewish
history
. Columbia professor Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of
Jewish
comedy
and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing the product of Jews' comic imagination over continents and centuries into what he calls the seven strands of
Jewish
comedy
- including the satirical, the witty, and the vulgar - he traces the ways
Jewish
comedy
has mirrored, and sometimes even shaped, the course of
Jewish
history
. Persecution, cultural assimilation, religious revival, diaspora, Zionism - all of these, and more, were grist for the
Jewish
comic mill; and Dauber's book takes readers on the tour of the funny side of some very
serious
business. (And vice versa.) Raders will encounter comic masterpieces here that range from Talmudic rabbi jokes to medieval skits, Yiddish satires and Borscht Belt routines to scenes from Seinfeld and Broad City, and the book of Esther to Adam Sandler's "Hanukkah Song." Dauber also explores the rise and fall of popular comic archetypes such as the
Jewish
mother, the
Jewish
American Princess, and the schlemiel, the schlimazel, and the schmuck, and the classic works of such masters of
Jewish
comedy
as Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, Franz Kafka, the Marx Brothers, Woody Allen, Joan Rivers, Philip Roth, Mel Brooks, Sarah Silverman, Jon Stewart, and Larry David.
Jewish
comedy
, as Dauber writes, is
serious
business. And precisely what it is, how it developed, and how its various strands weave together and in conversation with the
Jewish
story: that's
Jewish
Comedy
. Jeremy Dauber is the Atran Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture at Columbia University"--Provided by publisher.
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