Jewish Humor

Name: Jewish Humor
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ISBN: 9781560009917

ISBN-10: 1560009918

ISBN-13: 9781560009917

Edition: 1997

Authors: Avner Ziv, Avner Ziv

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Book details

List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 1/30/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 226
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Avner Ziv is professor in the Department of Psychology and Education at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Personality and Sense of Humor and the editor of National Styles of Humor.



Introduction to the Transaction Edition



Shalom Aleichem's "On account of a hat"



The Jew as comic: Lenny Bruce, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen



Psycho-social aspects of Jewish humor in Israel and in the Diaspora



Jewish jokes, anti-Semitic jokes and Hebredonian jokes



Gallows humor and Jewish humor: A reading of "The Dance of Genghis Cohn" by Romain Gary



Humor and sexism: The case of the Jewish joke



The Rabbi versus the priest and other Jewish stories



Halachic issues as satirical elements in nineteenth century Hebrew literature



Tevie the milkman - intertwining Jewish destiny and humor



Political satire in the Israeli theatre: Another outlook on Zionism



What? Humor? In the news? - How serious is the news on Israeli radio



Do Jews in Israel still laugh at themselves?



Political caricature as a reflection of Israel's development



Scholarly Bibliography on Jewish Humor


Index