Ebook: Jewish comedy: a serious history

Introduction: A joke, two definitions, seven themes, four warnings, and another joke -- What's so funny about anti-semitism? -- Noy-so-nice Jewish doctors -- The wit of the Jews -- A view from the bottom -- The divine comedy -- The tale of the folk -- Jewish comedy--hold the Jewishness.;Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award--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--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.