A club of their own

Titel: A club of their own : Jewish humorists and the contemporary world / edited by Eli Lederhendler ; guest symposium editor Gabriel N. Finder
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Veröffentlicht: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016
Umfang: xv, 315 Seiten
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
Schriftenreihe/
mehrbändiges Werk:
Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 29
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ISBN: 0190646128 ; 9780190646127
  • Symposium
  • A Club of Their Own: Jewish Humorists and the Contemporary World
  • Steven Belter, "The Right Melange": Viennese Operetta as a Stage for Jewish Humor
  • p. 3
  • Edward Portnoy, Purlin on Pesach: The Invented Tradition of Passover Yontef-bleilekh in the Warsaw Yiddish Press
  • p. 24
  • Stephen J. Whitfield, Jackie Mason: The Comedian as Ethnographer
  • p. 38
  • Jarrod Tanny, Decoding Seinfeld's Jewishness
  • p. 53
  • Michael Berkowitz, "Humour Wholesalers"? Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran's Anglo-Jewish Television Comedy
  • p. 75
  • Carol Zemel, Funny-Looking: Thoughts on Jewish Visual Humor
  • p. 90
  • Anna Shternshis, Humor and Russian Jewish Identity
  • p. 101
  • Avinoam Patt, "Laughter through Tears": Jewish Humor in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
  • p. 113
  • Kerstin Steilz, And Hannah Laughed: The Role of Irony in Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem
  • p. 132
  • Gabriel N. Finder, An Irony of History: Ephraim Kishon's German Triumph
  • p. 141
  • Diego Rotman, The "Tsadik from Plonsk" and "Goldenyu": Political Satire in Dzigan and Shumacher's Israeli Comic Repertoire
  • p. 154
  • Limor Shifman, Humor and Ethnicity on Israeli Television: A Historical Perspective
  • p. 171
  • Asal Dardan, From Monsters to Pop Icons: The Use of Humor in Films on Nazis and Hitler since Der Untergang
  • p. 189
  • David Shield, Making Out in Anne Frank's Attic: Humor and the Holocaust in Australia
  • p. 204
  • Essay
  • Richard I. Cohen, In Memoriam: Ezra Mendelsohn
  • p. 233
  • Review Essay
  • Olga Litvak, The New Marranos
  • p. 245
  • Book Reviews (arranged by subject)
  • Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide
  • Esther Farbstein, Beseter hamadregah: hayahadut haortodoksit behungariyah nokhah hashoah (Hidden in the Heights: Orthodox Jewry in Hungary during the Holocaust)
  • p. 271
  • Amos Goldberg, Traumah beguf rishon: ketivat yomanim bitkufat hashoah (Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing during the Holocaust)
  • p. 273
  • Michal Shaul, Pe'er tahat 'efer: hahevrah haharedit beyisrael betzel hashoah 1945-1961 (Beauty for Ashes: Holocaust Memory and the Rehabilitation of Ashkenazi Haredi Society in Israel 1945-1961)
  • p. 275
  • Ben Urwand, The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler
  • p. 277
  • Cultural Studies
  • Joy Calico, Armold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe
  • p. 280
  • Olga Gershenson, The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe
  • p. 245
  • Ernest B. Gilman, Yiddish Poetry and the Tuberculosis Sanatorium 1900-1970
  • p. 282
  • Rina Lapidus, Jewish Women Writers in the Soviet Union
  • p. 245
  • Harriet Murav, Music from a Speeding Train: Jewish Literature in Post-Revolutionary Russia
  • p. 245
  • Efraim Sicher (ed.), Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses about "Jews" in the Twenty-First Century
  • p. 284
  • Yosef Tobi and Tsivia Tobi, Judeo-Arabic Literature in Tunisia, 1850-1950
  • p. 286
  • History and Biography
  • Mordechai Altshuler, Religion and Jewish Identity in the Soviet Union, 1941-1964, trans. Saadya Sternberg
  • p. 245
  • Dianne Ashton, Hanukkah in America: A History
  • p. 289
  • Elissa Bemporad, Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk
  • p. 245
  • Ava F. Kahn and Adam D. Mendelsohn (eds.), Transnational Traditions: New Perspectives on American Jewish. History
  • p. 292
  • Cecile Esther Kuznitz, YIVO and the Making of Modem Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation
  • p. 294
  • Jess Olson, Nathan Bimbaum and Jewish Modernity: Architect of Zionism, Yiddishism and Orthodoxy
  • p. 296
  • Yaacov Ro'i (ed.), The Jewish Movement in the Soviet Union
  • p. 245
  • David Shneer, Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War and the Holocaust
  • p. 245
  • Lee Shai Weissbach (ed. and trans.), A Jewish Life on Three Continents: The Memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden
  • p. 298
  • Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East
  • Gideon Aran, Kookism: shoreshei Gush Emunium, tarbut hamitnahalim, teologiyah tziyonit, meshihiyut bizmanenu (Kookism: The Roots of Gush Emunium, Settler Culture, Zionist Theology, and Contemporary Messianism)
  • p. 301
  • Israel Bartal and Shimon Shamir (eds.), Beit Salomon: sheloshah dorot shel mehadeshei hayishuv (The Salomons: Three Generations of Pioneers and Leaders)
  • p. 304
  • Anat Helman, A Coat of Many Colors: Dress Culture in the Young State of Israel
  • p. 306
  • Mark LeVine and Mathias Mossberg (eds.), One Land, Two States: Israel and Palestine as Parallel States
  • p. 308
  • Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXX
  • p. 313
  • Note on Editorial Policy
  • p. 315