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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lederhendler, Eli, editor.

Finder, Gabriel N., editor.

Makhon le-Yahadut zemanenu ʻa. sh. Avraham Harman.

Series:

Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 25.

Studies in contemporary Jewry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish wit and humor--History and criticism.

Jewish wit and humor.

Jews--Humor.

Jews.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xv, 315 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Published for the Institute by Oxford University Press, 2016.

Contents:

Symposium

A Club of Their Own: Jewish Humorists and the Contemporary World

Steven Belter, "The Right Melange": Viennese Operetta as a Stage for Jewish Humor 3

Edward Portnoy, Purlin on Pesach: The Invented Tradition of Passover Yontef-bleilekh in the Warsaw Yiddish Press 24

Stephen J. Whitfield, Jackie Mason: The Comedian as Ethnographer 38

Jarrod Tanny, Decoding Seinfeld's Jewishness 53

Michael Berkowitz, "Humour Wholesalers"? Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran's Anglo-Jewish Television Comedy 75

Carol Zemel, Funny-Looking: Thoughts on Jewish Visual Humor 90

Anna Shternshis, Humor and Russian Jewish Identity 101

Avinoam Patt, "Laughter through Tears": Jewish Humor in the Aftermath of the Holocaust 113

Kerstin Steilz, And Hannah Laughed: The Role of Irony in Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem 132

Gabriel N. Finder, An Irony of History: Ephraim Kishon's German Triumph 141

Diego Rotman, The "Tsadik from Plonsk" and "Goldenyu": Political Satire in Dzigan and Shumacher's Israeli Comic Repertoire 154

Limor Shifman, Humor and Ethnicity on Israeli Television: A Historical Perspective 171

Asal Dardan, From Monsters to Pop Icons: The Use of Humor in Films on Nazis and Hitler since Der Untergang 189

David Shield, Making Out in Anne Frank's Attic: Humor and the Holocaust in Australia 204

Essay

Richard I. Cohen, In Memoriam: Ezra Mendelsohn 233

Review Essay

Olga Litvak, The New Marranos 245

Book Reviews (arranged by subject)

Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide

Esther Farbstein, Beseter hamadregah: hayahadut haortodoksit behungariyah nokhah hashoah (Hidden in the Heights: Orthodox Jewry in Hungary during the Holocaust) / Haim Genizi Genizi, Haim 271

Amos Goldberg, Traumah beguf rishon: ketivat yomanim bitkufat hashoah (Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing during the Holocaust) / Omri Herzog Herzog, Omri 273

Michal Shaul, Pe'er tahat 'efer: hahevrah haharedit beyisrael betzel hashoah 1945-1961 (Beauty for Ashes: Holocaust Memory and the Rehabilitation of Ashkenazi Haredi Society in Israel 1945-1961) / Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz Baumel-Schwartz, Judith Tydor 275

Ben Urwand, The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler / Ofer Ashkenazi Ashkenazi, Ofer 277

Cultural Studies

Joy Calico, Armold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe / Yoel Greenberg Greenberg, Yoel 280

Olga Gershenson, The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe / Olga Litvak Litvak, Olga 245

Ernest B. Gilman, Yiddish Poetry and the Tuberculosis Sanatorium 1900-1970 / Jan Schwarz Schwarz, Jan 282

Rina Lapidus, Jewish Women Writers in the Soviet Union / Olga Litvak Litvak, Olga 245

Harriet Murav, Music from a Speeding Train: Jewish Literature in Post-Revolutionary Russia / Olga Litvak Litvak, Olga 245

Efraim Sicher (ed.), Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses about "Jews" in the Twenty-First Century / Mitchell B. Hart Hart, Mitchell B. 284

Yosef Tobi and Tsivia Tobi, Judeo-Arabic Literature in Tunisia, 1850-1950 / Norman (NOAM) Norman, (NOAM), A. Stillmam Stillmam, A. 286

History and Biography

Mordechai Altshuler, Religion and Jewish Identity in the Soviet Union, 1941-1964, trans. Saadya Sternberg / Olga Litvak Litvak, Olga 245

Dianne Ashton, Hanukkah in America: A History / Hizky Shoham Shoham, Hizky 289

Elissa Bemporad, Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk / Olga Litvak Litvak, Olga 245

Ava F. Kahn and Adam D. Mendelsohn (eds.), Transnational Traditions: New Perspectives on American Jewish. History / Eli Lederhendler Lederhendler, Eli 292

Cecile Esther Kuznitz, YIVO and the Making of Modem Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation / Eli Lederhendler Lederhendler, Eli 294

Jess Olson, Nathan Bimbaum and Jewish Modernity: Architect of Zionism, Yiddishism and Orthodoxy / David Weinberg Weinberg, David 296

Yaacov Ro'i (ed.), The Jewish Movement in the Soviet Union / Olga Litvak Litvak, Olga 245

David Shneer, Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War and the Holocaust / Olga Litvak Litvak, Olga 245

Lee Shai Weissbach (ed. and trans.), A Jewish Life on Three Continents: The Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden / Gur Alroey Alroey, Gur 298

Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East

Gideon Aran, Kookism: shoreshei Gush Emunium, tarbut hamitnahalim, teologiyah tziyonit, meshihiyut bizmanenu (Kookism: The Roots of Gush Emunium, Settler Culture, Zionist Theology, and Contemporary Messianism) / Tamar Ross Ross, Tamar 301

Israel Bartal and Shimon Shamir (eds.), Beit Salomon: sheloshah dorot shel mehadeshei hayishuv (The Salomons: Three Generations of Pioneers and Leaders) / Reuven Gaeni Gaeni, Reuven 304

Anat Helman, A Coat of Many Colors: Dress Culture in the Young State of Israel / Jenna Weissman Joselit Joselit, Jenna Weissman 306

Mark LeVine and Mathias Mossberg (eds.), One Land, Two States: Israel and Palestine as Parallel States / Menachem Klein Klein, Menachem 308.

Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: Club of their own

ISBN:

9780190646127

0190646128

OCLC:

951452905