TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lederhendler,Eli
AU  - Finder,Gabriel N.
ED  - Makhon le-Yahadut zemanenu ʻa. sh. Avraham Harman.
TI  - A club of their own: Jewish humorists and the contemporary world 
T2  - Studies in contemporary Jewry, an annual,
SN  - 9780190646134
AV  - PN6149.J4 C58 2016
U1  - 809.7/98924 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Published for the Institute by Oxford University Press
KW  - Jewish wit and humor
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Jews
KW  - Humor
KW  - Humour juif
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - "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
N2  - 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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