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S'està carregant… Jewish Comedy: A Serious History (edició 2017)de Jeremy Dauber (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. In Adam Rovner’s book review that appeared in the Forward magazine, he does a wonderful job of explaining Dauber’s history of Jewish Humor: “Dauber examines how Jews in different places and eras have responded with humor to a variety of experiences, including anti-Semitism, assimilation and life in the Diaspora.” The New York Times review claimed that for most of their history Jews had a reputation, among gentiles, that they were humorless and glum. However, in 1978, Time magazine claimed that 80% of all stand-up comedians in the U.S. were Jewish. Freud theorized that Jewish humor was a defense mechanism. Although Dauber takes a very scholarly approach by dividing Jewish humor into seven categories from the Book of Esther to “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, his excursions into Jewish humor throughout history are lightened by his retelling of numerous jokes. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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In a work of scholarship both erudite and funny, Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organising his book thematically into what he calls the seven strands of Jewish comedy (including the Satirical, the Witty and the Vulgar), Dauber explores the ways Jewish comedy has dealt with persecution, assimilation and diaspora through the ages. He explains the rise and fall of popular comic archetypes such as the Jewish mother, the JAP, and the schlemiel and schlimazel. He also explores a range of comic masterpieces, from the Book of Esther, Talmudic rabbi jokes, Yiddish satires, Borscht Belt skits and Seinfeld to the work of such masters as Sholem Aleichem, Franz Kafka, the Marx Brothers, Woody Allen, Joan Rivers, Philip Roth, Sarah Silverman and Jon Stewart. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Hitler set up” Joke Courts” to punish and silence opponents—5,286 sentences to death for political joke tellers. Someone asked a Nazi how to determine if a joke was criminal-he said the better the joke—the more dangerous the effect.
An Iranian had a contest for the most anti-Israel and antisemitic cartoons and an Israeli illustrator announced it should be open to Jews—we’ll show the world we can do the best, sharpest and most offensive Jew hating cartoons ever published.
Archie and Edith were disguised Jews according to the author!
Lorne Michaels hired Al Franken to writing staff of SNL.
This struck me as an unusual comedic form: When the holidays are fighting with one another—Hanukkah is telling Passover-no one can stomach your food. Hanukkah tells Purim that Purim is inferior because it only last one night-he last eight days and even that feels brief.
Allan Sherman did parodies of Broadway musicals-My Fair Sadie and South Passaic. He couldn’t release them on albums because of copyright issues so that’s why he used stuff in public domain.
To be truly offensive and vulgar is easy and artless. To be meaningfully vulgar and offensive so in a way that enlightens that has a long tradition—and done with love.
The negatives are that book sometimes get repetitive and analytical without making a clear point. And way too much stuff about Purim.
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