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Title: Jewish Humor : What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jews by Joseph Telushkin ISBN: 0-688-16351-3 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 02 September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Fun Overview of Jewish Humor -- whatever that is!
Comment: Telushkin--clearly a writing machine--has penned a highly enjoyable overview of Jewish humor, complete with plenty of jokes. He has broken down the humor by category, but truly, this is just a fun romp through a type of humor that has so permeated American culture that many of the jokes have been translated into other formats (with rabbis changing into Priests or Pastors, for example).
This ain't anything to knock your socks off, but it's an enjoyable read.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Jewish Eyeview
Comment: An interesting and scholarly look at what makes Jews funny, what's behind the humor, along with numerous examples. An eye-opener, it also makes you think while you're laughing. For another point of view, I personally loved A Little Joy, A Little Oy, part of which takes on similar issues of humor but from a different angle, along with contrasting the humor with pathos. But both are excellent and should be in every Jewish library!
Rating: 4
Summary: This book is about the Jewish experience
Comment: In this book, we learn about the Jewish experience as expressed in humor. For example, Jews have often reacted to antisemitism by joking about it. Usually such humor includes irony, often having a punchline in which a hapless Jew gets the better of his oppressor. Sometimes, however, the humor is bitter.
Rightly or wrongly, ethnic groups are stereotyped and Jewish humor makes great use of its own stereotypes. Even the most religious Jew can poke fun at rabbis and generally, such humor is gentle and endearing. The conflict between the major branches of Judaism is fertile ground for jokes. So too, the Jewish family and all it's stereotypes e.g. the Jewish mother, is a tremendous source of humor. Even Jews who are totally non religious, such as Woody Allen, nontheless are greatly influenced by their Judaism in their humor.
This book explores the Jewish experience and then relates how this experience surfaces in humor. The book also exposes ugliness in Jewish humor such as the nasty, antisemitic "JAP" jokes that were popular, generally among non Jews. This book is not a collection of jokes, although there are plenty of jokes in this book. Rather, this is a book about what makes Jewish humor tick as illustrated by the jokes which are included as examples.
I gave the book four stars rather than five because there are extensive end notes, many of which are worth reading and I feel that they should have been integrated into the text. Instead, the reader must flip to the end of the book to reference these notes. This is somewhat annoying. Despite this criticism, I really liked the book and found it to be very enjoyable reading.
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Title: 101 Classic Jewish Jokes: Jewish Humor from Groucho Marx to Jerry Seinfeld by Robert Menchin, Joe Kohl ISBN: 0914457888 Publisher: Mustang Pubn Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Jewish Wisdom by Joseph Telushkin ISBN: 0688129587 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 21 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Book of Jewish Values : A Day-by-Day Guide to Ethical Living by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin ISBN: 0609603302 Publisher: Harmony/Bell Tower Pub. Date: 22 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Words That Hurt, Words That Heal : How to Choose Words Wisely and Well by Joseph Telushkin ISBN: 0688163505 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 02 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History by Joseph Telushkin ISBN: 0688085067 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 26 April, 1991 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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