A club of their own : Jewish humorists and the contemporary world / edited by Eli Lederhendler ; guest symposium editor: Gabriel N. Finder.

"The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem."

Includes bibliographical references.

Cover ; A Club of their Own: Jewish Humorists and the Contemporary World: Studies in Contemporary Jewry an Annual XXIX ; Copyright ; Preface; Notes; Contents; Symposium A Club of Their Own: Jewish Humorists and the Contemporary World ; "The Right Mélange": Viennese Operetta as a Stage for Jewish Humor ; Better than Its Reputation?; A Jewish Script; Jews on Stage; The Showboat Stratagem; How a Yellow Jacket Became a Land of Smiles; The South Pacific Syndrome; From the Buchenwaldlied to The Sound of Music: The Jewish Legacy of Viennese Operetta ; Notes

Purim on Pesach: The Invented Tradition of Passover Yontef-bletlekh in the Warsaw Yiddish Press Examples of Interwar Hagadah Parodies; The Peysekh-blat (Lublin); The Gensha Street Hagadah; The "Miss Judea" Hagadahs; Conclusion; Notes; Jackie Mason: The Comedian as Ethnographer ; Notes; Decoding Seinfeld's Jewishness; Notes; "Humour Wholesalers"? Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran's Anglo-Jewish Television Comedy ; Notes; Funny-Looking: Thoughts on Jewish Visual Humor ; Notes; Humor and Russian Jewish Identity; Jokes of the 1920s and 1930s; 1937-1953: Stories about Jokes

Jokes of the 1950s through the 1980sConclusion; Notes; "Laughter through Tears": Jewish Humor in the Aftermath of the Holocaust ; Jewish Humor before and during the Holocaust; Jewish Humor and Entertainment in the DP Camps; Conclusion; Notes; And Hannah Laughed: The Role of Irony in Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem ; Notes; An Irony of History: Ephraim Kishon's German Triumph; Notes; The "Tsadik from Plonsk" and "Goldenyu": Political Satire in Dzigan and Shumacher's Israeli Comic Repertoire ; Dzigan and Shumacher's Early Careers; "The New Dybbuk"; Ben-Gurion as Hasidic Tsadik

Reb Dovidl's Mysticism: Between Kabbalah and SecurityPortrait of the State; Between Mimicry and Criticism; The Alien and Discordant Voice; "In the Plonsker Rebbe's Yeshiva"; "Goldenyu" and "Golda Visits the Pope"; Conclusion: The Diaspora Body; Notes; Humor and Ethnicity on Israeli Television: A Historical Perspective ; Humor, Society, and Ethnicity; Ethnic Relations in Israel: Milestones; Analytical Scope; The Mizrahi as "Comic Victim" ("The New Immigrants," 1973); Hegemony's Losing Battle ("The Sabbath Trip," 1984)

The Mizrahi as Court Jester in the Age of Commercial Television ("Jojo Halastra," 1994) "Some of My Best Friends are Ashkenazi" (Only in Israel, 1998-2003); Concluding Thoughts; Notes; From Monsters to Pop Icons: The Use of Humor in Films on Nazis and Hitler since Der Untergang ; The "Truest Truth" about Hitler; The Nazi-Killing Business; Nazis in a "Space Oddity"; Selfies with Hitler; Conclusion; Notes; Making Out in Anne Frank's Attic: Humor and the Holocaust in Australia ; Australian Jewry and the Holocaust; Jewish Holocaust Humor; John Safran: Race Relations

Volume XXIX of Studies in Contemporary Jewry provides a nuanced account of the history and development of Jewish humor, while also making a case for the importance of humor in studying any culture.

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