Jewish Comedy: A Serious History

In a major work of scholarship both erudite and very funny, Columbia professor Jeremy Dauber traces the...
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Jewish Comedy: A Serious History by Dauber, Jeremy

Jewish Comedy: A Serious History

Dhs. 164.39

Jewish Comedy: A Serious History

Dhs. 164.39
Author: Jeremy Dauber
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

In a major work of scholarship both erudite and very funny, Columbia professor Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing the product of Jews' comic imagination over continents and centuries into what he calls the seven strands of Jewish comedy--including the satirical, the witty, and the vulgar--he traces the ways Jewish comedy has mirrored, and sometimes even shaped, the course of Jewish history. Persecution, cultural assimilation, religious revival, diaspora, Zionism--all of these, and more, were grist for the Jewish comic mill; and Dauber's book takes readers on the tour of the funny side of some very serious business. (And vice versa.)

In a work of dazzling scope, readers will encounter comic masterpieces here that range from Talmudic rabbi jokes to medieval skits, Yiddish satires and Borscht Belt routines to scenes from Seinfeld and Broad City, and the book of Esther to Adam Sandler's "Hanukkah Song." Dauber also explores the rise and fall of popular comic archetypes such as the Jewish mother, the Jewish American Princess, and the schlemiel, the schlimazel, and the schmuck, and the classic works of such masters of Jewish comedy as Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, Franz Kafka, the Marx Brothers, Woody Allen, Joan Rivers, Philip Roth, Mel Brooks, Sarah Silverman, Jon Stewart, and Larry David, among many others.

Jewish comedy, as Dauber writes, is serious business. And precisely what it is, how it developed, and how its various strands weave together and in conversation with the Jewish story: that's Jewish Comedy.



Author: Jeremy Dauber
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 10/31/2017
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780393247879


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2017
Publishers Weekly 08/14/2017
Booklist 09/01/2017 pg. 28
BookPage 11/01/2017

About the Author
Dauber, Jeremy: - Jeremy Dauber is a professor of Jewish literature and American studies at Columbia University. He is the author of Jewish Comedy and The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem, both finalists for the National Jewish Book Award. He lives in New York City.

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