By Avner Ziv,Anat Zajdman
With an ongoing foreign convention, Jewish humor lately has been a subject matter of great scholarly inquiry. such a lot educational guides, in spite of the fact that, were person works representing a selected thesis or standpoint, in most cases on literary facets. the current number of essays by way of students from England, France, the U.S., Denmark, Israel, and Australia explores features of Jewish humor from numerous views, together with anthropology, literature, psychology, sociology, and religion.
Geographically, the paintings distinguishes among the Jewish humor of Israel and that of the diaspora; traditionally, it strains Jewish humor to the Bible. The linkages with Judaism and the Yiddish language are explored. Essays care for the Jewish use of humor in annoying and tragic events, with self-disparagement in Jewish humor, with anti-semitism and stereotyping, and with Jewish ladies because the gadgets of humor. The contributions to global tradition of humorists Sholom Aleichem, Woody Allen, Philip Roth, Charlie Chaplin, and diverse modern performers are mentioned as are the Jewish theorists of humor, together with Sigmund Freud, Henri Bergson, and Arthur Koestler. An interdisciplinary e-book, it is going to be of curiosity to scholars and researchers of Jewish culture and folklore, Jewish-American literature, American stories, and humor, pop culture, anthropology, psychology, and sociology.
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Semites and Stereotypes: Characteristics of Jewish Humor: Characteristics of Jewish Humour (Contributions in Ethnic Studies) by Avner Ziv,Anat Zajdman
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