Jewish Humor What the Best Jewish Jokes Say about the Jews

Name: Jewish Humor What the Best Jewish Jokes Say about the Jews
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ISBN: 9780688163518

ISBN-10: 0688163513

ISBN-13: 9780688163518

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Joseph Telushkin

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Here are more than 100 of the best Jewish jokes you'll ever hear, interspersed with perceptive and persuasive insight into what they can tell us about how Jews see themselves, their families, and their friends, and what they think about money, sex, and success. Rabbi Joseph Telushkin is as celebrated for his wit as for his scholarship, and in this immensely entertaining book, he displays both in equal measure. Stimulating, something stinging, and always very, very funny, Jewish Humor offers a classic portrait of the Jewish collective unconscious.

Book details

List price: $14.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 8/19/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: What Is Jewish About Jewish Humor?



"Oedipus, Shmedipus, as Long as He Loves His Mother": The Inescapable Hold of the Jewish Family


Between Parents and Children



"Two Men Come Down a Chimney" Jewish Intelligence and the Playful Logic of the Jewish Mind


Jewish Brains, Jewish Braininess


The Talmud


Reason Gone Mad: The Humor of the Absurd



"So How Do You Make a Hurricane?": The Jew in Business, or Jokes That Would Give an Antisemite Nakhas


Jewish Business Ethics


Materialism



"The Doctor Is Three and the Lawyer Is Two": Self-Loathing, Self-Praise, and Other Jewish Neuroses


Self-deprecation, Chutzpah, and the Jewish Sense of Self-worth


Sex, Guilt, and Other Complications


Jewish Civil Wars



"Pardon Me, Do You Have Another Globe?": Persecution and the Jewish Sense of Homelessness


Antisemitism


Forbidden Laughter: The Jokes of Russian-Jewish Dissidents



"And I Used to Be a Hunchback": Assimilation and Its Delusions


Assimilation


When Jews Become Christians


Intermarriage



"If I Could Just See One Miracle": Poking Fun at God, His Law, and His Spokesmen on Earth


Is God an Underachiever?


The Messiah


Rabbis


Orthodox Jewish Humor


Charity



"Better to Be Late in This World Than Early in the Next": Why Are There So Few Funny Israeli Jokes?



"Why Is This Knight Different from All Other Knights?": Seven Final - and Unrelated - Jewish Jokes


Notes


Annotated Bibliography


Index