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Introduction : The Varieties Of Jewish Humor / Sarah Blacher Cohen -- Nature Of Jewish Laughter / Irving Howe -- Jewish Humor And The Domestication Of Myth / Robert Alter -- On Sholom Aleichem's Humor / Meyer Wiener -- Beyond Kvetching And Jiving : The Thrust Of Jewish And Black Folkhumor / Joseph Boskin -- Laughter Makers / Albert Goldman -- Lenny Bruce : Shpritzing The Goyim / Shocking The Jews / Sanford Pinsker -- Unkosher Comediennes: From Sophie Tucker To Joan Rivers / Sarah Blacher Cohen -- Woody Allen : The Neurotic Jew As American Clown / Gerald Mast -- Dear Mr. Einstein : Jewish Comedy And The Contradictions Of Culture / Mark Shechner -- Jewish Sit-down Comedy Of Philip Roth / Alan Cooper -- Stanley Elkin And Jewish Black Humor / Maurice Charney -- Mordecai Richler And Jewish-canadian Humor / Michael Greenstein -- Is There Humor In Israeli Literature And If Not, Why Are We Laughing? / Esther Fuchs. Edited, With An Introduction By Sarah Blacher Cohen. Bibliography: P. 234-241.

Author

edited, with an introduction by Sarah Blacher Cohen

Publisher

Bloomington: Indiana University Press

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9780253331854

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities