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No Joke

Ruth R. Wisse
No Joke Book PDF

Author : Ruth R. Wisse
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691165813

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"Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish humor into being--and the price it may exact from its practitioners and audience"--

The Big Book of Jewish Humor

William Novak,Moshe Waldoks
The Big Book of Jewish Humor Book PDF

Author : William Novak,Moshe Waldoks
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114437846

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Two rival businessmen meet in the Warsaw train station. "Where are you going?" says the first man. "To Minsk," says the second. "To Minsk, eh? What a nerve you have! I know you're telling me you're going to Minsk because you want me to think that you're really going to Pinsk. But it so happens that I know you really are going to Minsk. So why are you lying to me?" Four men are walking in the desert. The German says, "I'm tired and thirsty. I must have a beer." The Italian says, "I'm tired and thirsty. I must have wine." The Mexican says, "I'm tired and thirsty. I must have tequila." The Jew says, "I'm tired and thirsty. I must have diabetes."

Jews and Humor

Leonard J. Greenspoon
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Author : Leonard J. Greenspoon
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781612491554

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Jews and Humor by Leonard J. Greenspoon Pdf

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 humor "Jewish"? These are among the myriad queries addressed by the fourteen authors whose essays are collected in this volume. And, thankfully, their observations, always apt and often witty, are expressed with a lightness of style and a depth of analysis that are appropriate to the many topics they cover. The scholars who contributed to this collection allow readers both to discern the common features that make up "Jewish humor" and to delight in the individualism and eccentricities of the many figures whose lives and accomplishments are narrated here. Because these essays are written in a clear, jargon-free style, they will appeal to everyone—even those who don't usually crack a smile!

The Ultimate Book of Jewish Jokes

David Minkoff
The Ultimate Book of Jewish Jokes Book PDF

Author : David Minkoff
Publisher : Portico
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781909396258

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The Ultimate Book of Jewish Jokes by David Minkoff Pdf

This is, quite simply, the most comprehensive collection of Jewish jokes, ever! The author has sourced over 1000 jokes and witty anecdotes that will have your sides splitting. With topics ranging from Rabbis to relationships; hairdressers to honeymoons; Bar Mitzvahs to bodybuilders; and from shopping, dating and in-laws to miracles, Viagra and chutzpah - and you don't have to be Jewish to enjoy them. This unique book also contains jokes for children, a compatability test for dating couples, humourous quips that can be used in speeches for special occasions, and a generous sprinkling of naughtier jokes.

Encyclopedia of Jewish Humor

Henry D. Spalding
Encyclopedia of Jewish Humor Book PDF

Author : Henry D. Spalding
Publisher : Jonathan David Pub
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0824604393

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Encyclopedia of Jewish Humor by Henry D. Spalding Pdf

Hundreds of colorful, witty, and downright hilarious stories, anecdotes, quips, jokes, and yarns reflect and poke fun at Jewish culture from ancient times to the present.

God Laughed

Hershey H. Friedman
God Laughed Book PDF

Author : Hershey H. Friedman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351517171

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God Laughed by Hershey H. Friedman Pdf

Humor has had a profound effect on the way the Jewish people see the world, and has sustained them through millennia of hardships and suffering. God Laughed reviews, organizes, and categorizes the humor of the ancient Jewish texts-the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, and Midrash-in a clear, readable, and accessible manner. These works have influenced the Jewish people in many ways, and all are replete with humor and wit. Inevitably, this oeuvre of Jewish humor has itself influenced generations of comics, as well as genres of humor. The authors use examples of Biblical humor from several broad categories, including irony, sarcasm, wordplay, humorous names, humorous imagery, and humorous situations. Because their primary purpose is not to entertain, but to teach humanity how to live the ideal life, much of the humor in the Talmud and the Midrash has a single purpose: to demonstrate that evil is wrong and even, at times, ludicrous. This may help explain why approximately 1,500 years after its closing, the Talmud is still such a fascinating work.

Let There Be Laughter

Michael Krasny
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Author : Michael Krasny
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780062422057

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From the host of NPR affiliate’s Forum with Michael Krasny, a compendium of Jewish jokes that packs the punches with hilarious riff after riff and also offers a window into Jewish culture. Michael Krasny has been telling Jewish jokes since his bar mitzvah, and it’s been said that he knows more of them than anyone on the planet. He certainly states his case in this wise, enlightening, and hilarious book that not only collects the best of Jewish humor passed down from generation to generation, but explains the cultural expressions and anxieties behind the laughs. "What’s Jewish Alzheimer’s?" "You forget everything but the grudges." "You must be so proud. Your daughter is the President of the United States!" "Yes. But her brother is a doctor!" "Isn’t Jewish humor masochistic?" "No. And if I hear that one more time I am going to kill myself." With his background as a scholar and public-radio host, Krasny delves deeply into the themes, topics, and form of Jewish humor: chauvinism undercut by irony and self-mockery, the fear of losing cultural identity through assimilation, the importance of vocal inflection in joke-telling, and calls to communal memory, including the use of Yiddish. Borrowing from traditional humor and such Jewish comedy legends as Jackie Mason, Mel Brooks, and Joan Rivers, Larry David, Sarah Silverman, Jerry Seinfeld and Amy Schumer, Let There Be Laughter is an absolute pleasure for the chosen and goyim alike.

A Treasury of Jewish Humor

Nathan Ausubel
A Treasury of Jewish Humor Book PDF

Author : Nathan Ausubel
Publisher : M. Evans
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0871318628

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Here are the sermons of anonymous rabbis from the shtetlach as well as writings from the great authors.

The First Book of Jewish Jokes

Elliott Oring
The First Book of Jewish Jokes Book PDF

Author : Elliott Oring
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253038324

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Works on Jewish humor and Jewish jokes abound today, but what formed the basis for our contemporary notions of Jewish jokes? How and when did these perceptions develop? In this groundbreaking study and translation, noted humor and folklore scholar Elliott Oring introduces us to the joke collections of Lippmann Moses Büschenthal, an enlightened rabbi, and an unknown author writing as "Judas Ascher." Originally published in German in 1812 and 1810, these books include jokes and anecdotes that play on stereotypes. The jokes depict Jews dealing with Gentiles who are bent on their conversion, Jews encountering government officials and institutions, newly propertied Jews attempting to demonstrate their acquisition of artistic and philosophical knowledge, and Jews engaged in trade and moneylending—often with the aim to defraud. In these jokes we see the antecedents of modern Jewish humor, and in Büschenthal's brief introduction we find perhaps the earliest theory of the Jewish joke. Oring provides helpful annotations for the jokes and contextualizing essays that examine the current state of Jewish joke scholarship and the situation of the Jews in France and Germany leading up to the periods when the two collections were published. Intended to stimulate the search for even earlier examples, Oring challenges us to confront the Jewish joke from a genuine historical perspective.

The Jewish Joke

Devorah Baum
The Jewish Joke Book PDF

Author : Devorah Baum
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781782831938

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The Jewish Joke by Devorah Baum Pdf

'This book is funny, clever and, at times, heartbreaking. In other words, Jewish' David Baddiel '[Baum is] intellectually luminous, psychologically penetrating, existentially anxious, and wonderfully funny' Zadie Smith 'Hilarious and thought-provoking' David Schneider The Jewish joke is as old as Abraham, and like the Jews themselves it has wandered over the world, learned countless new languages, worked with a range of different materials, been performed in front of some pretty hostile crowds, but still retained its own distinctive identity. So what is it that animates the Jewish joke? Why are Jews so often thought of as 'funny'? And how old can a joke get? The Jewish Joke is a brilliant - and very funny - riff on Jewish jokes, about what marks them apart from other jokes, why they are important to Jewish identity and how they work. Ranging from self-deprecation to anti-Semitism, politics to sex, it looks at the past of Jewish joking and asks whether the Jewish joke has a future. With jokes from Amy Schumer, Lena Dunham and Jerry Seinfeld, as well as Freud and Marx (Groucho mostly), this is both a compendium and a commentary, light-hearted and deeply insightful.

Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation

Sarah Emanuel
Humor Resistance and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation Book PDF

Author : Sarah Emanuel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781108496599

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Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation by Sarah Emanuel Pdf

Positions Revelation within an ancient Jewish context and demonstrates how the author used humor to resist Roman power.

Old Jews Telling Jokes

Sam Hoffman
Old Jews Telling Jokes Book PDF

Author : Sam Hoffman
Publisher : Metro Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781857829549

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A grasshopper walks into a bar and orders a drink. The bartender looks at him and says, 'You know we have a drink named after you?' The grasshopper replies, 'You have a drink named Stanley?' Just one of the gags in this book, many of which explore Jewish themes.

101 Classic Jewish Jokes

Robert Menchin
101 Classic Jewish Jokes Book PDF

Author : Robert Menchin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997-09-30
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781461750147

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Jewish humor has defined comedy in 20th-century America.

Yiddish Wisdom

Chronicle Books
Yiddish Wisdom Book PDF

Author : Chronicle Books
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781452115733

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Yiddish Wisdom by Chronicle Books Pdf

Decade after decade, Yiddish proverbs continue to capture the humor, warmth, and traditions of Jewish life. Now, the beloved Yiddish Wisdom (more than 100,000 copies sold) has been expanded with even more proverbs and fresh illustrations to be cherished by a new generation. With more than 150 folk sayings translated in Yiddish and English—from the whimsical and witty (Dress up a broom and it will also look nice/Az men batziert a bezem iz er oich shain) to the poignant (When one must, one can/Az me muz, ken men) and practical (When you look to the heights, hold on to your hat/Az du kukst oif hoicheh zachen, halt tsu dos hitl)—this treasured volume is the perfect gift for any celebration.

Kvetching and Shpritzing

Joseph Dorinson
Kvetching and Shpritzing Book PDF

Author : Joseph Dorinson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786494828

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Kvetching and Shpritzing by Joseph Dorinson Pdf

Jewish humor, with its rational skepticism and cutting social criticism, permeates American popular culture. Scholars of humor--from Sigmund Freud to Woody Allen--have studied the essence of the Jewish joke, at once a defense mechanism against a hostile world and a means of cultural affirmation. Where did this wit originate? Why do Jewish humorists work at the margins of so many diverse cultures? What accounts for the longevity of the Jewish joke? Do oppressed people, as African American author Ralph Ellison suggested, slip their yoke when they change the joke? Citing examples from prominent humorists and stand-up comics, this book examines the phenomenon of Jewish humor from its biblical origins to its prevalence in the modern diaspora, revealing a mother lode of wit in language, literature, folklore, music and history.