Jewish humor, with its rational skepticism and cutting social
criticism, permeates American popular culture. Scholars of
humor-from Sigmund Freud to Woody Allen-have studied the essence of
the Jewish joke, at once a defense mechanism against a hostile
world and a means of cultural affirmation. Where did this wit
originate? Why do Jewish humorists work at the margins of so many
diverse cultures? What accounts for the longevity of the Jewish
joke? Do oppressed people, as African American author Ralph Ellison
suggested, slip their yoke when they change the joke? Citing
examples from prominent humorists and stand-up comics, this book
examines the phenomenon of Jewish humor from its biblical origins
to its prevalence in the modern diaspora, revealing a mother lode
of wit in language, literature, folklore, music and history.
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