The "Myth" of Jewish Humor

1973 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Ben-Amos
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Humor

Jewish Humor Strikes Again: The Outburst of Humor in Israel during the Gulf War

1994 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ofra Nevo ◽  
Jacob Levine
Keyword(s):  
Gulf War ◽  
Jewish Humor

The American Jewish Intelligentsia, the Claims of Humor—and the Case of Lenny Bruce

2021 ◽  
pp. 232-250
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Whitfield
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
The United States ◽  
Communal Life ◽  
Stand Up Comedy ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Jewish Humor ◽  
American Jewish

Several major American Jewish scholars and intellectuals have addressed the vitality and the pertinence of Jewish humor, seeing in it an entrée not only into key characteristics of communal life but also into the texture of reality itself. These academicians and critics have exposed the encounter between stand-up comedy and the social and political peculiarities of Jewish life in the United States. No comedian attracted more sustained attention than Lenny Bruce, whose career enlarged the contours of what could explored in night clubs and on long-playing records. Perhaps no satirist took greater risks, or exposed himself to greater legal danger, in both subject matter and in language. No predecessor was more willing to flaunt his own Jewish sensibility, or to present with such cynicism the hypocrisies inherent in the codes of conduct by which respectable America professed to live—which is what made Bruce the object of serious interest.

The People of the Joke: On the Conceptualization of a Jewish Humor

1983 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elliott Oring
Keyword(s):  
The People ◽  
Jewish Humor

Inciting Laughter: The Development of 'Jewish Humor' in 19th-Century German Culture

2001 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 1141
Author(s):  
Jeffrey L. Sammons ◽  
Jefferson S. Chase
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
German Culture ◽  
Jewish Humor

Inciting Laughter: The Development of "Jewish Humor" in 19th Century German Culture

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 617
Author(s):  
Richard Crouter ◽  
Jefferson W. Chase
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
German Culture ◽  
Jewish Humor
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