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Joking Asides: The Theory, Analysis, and Aesthetics of Humor

By Elliott Oring

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9781607324911 | Utah State Univ Pr, June 1, 2016, cover price $34.95

Kvetching and Shpritzing: Jewish Humor in American Popular Culture

Product Description: Jewish humor, with its rational skepticism and cutting social criticism, permeates American popular culture. Scholars of humor--from Sigmund Freud to Woody Allen--have studied the essence of the Jewish joke, at once a defense mechanism against a hostile world and a means of cultural affirmation...read more

By Joseph Dorinson

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9780786494828 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 31, 2015, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Jewish humor, with its rational skepticism and cutting social criticism, permeates American popular culture.

No Joke: Making Jewish Humor

By Ruth R. Wisse

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Hardcover:

9780691149462 | Princeton Univ Pr, June 2, 2013, cover price $24.95

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9780691165813 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 1, 2015, cover price $19.95

God Laughed: Sources of Jewish Humor

By Linda Weiser Friedman

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9781412853767 | Transaction Pub, May 1, 2014, cover price $39.95

Curb Your Enthusiasm and Philosophy

By Mark Ralkowski (editor)

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9780812697667 | Open Court Pub Co, August 7, 2012, cover price $19.95

Jews and Humor

By Leonard J. Greenspoon (editor)

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9781557535979 | Purdue Univ Pr, September 15, 2011, cover price $35.00

Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jews

A collection of Jewish humor features a compilation of Jewish jokes and offers and analysis of what humor reveals about Jewish culture

By Joseph Telushkin

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9780688110277 | William Morrow & Co, September 1, 1992, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A collection of Jewish humor features a compilation of Jewish jokes and offers and analysis of what humor reveals about Jewish culture

Paperback:

9780688163518 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1998, cover price $14.99

Miscellaneous:

9780062012852 | Harpercollins, May 18, 2010, cover price $9.99

Jokes and Their Relations

Product Description: Almost everyone tells and appreciates jokes. Yet the nature of jokes has proved elusive. When asked what they really mean, people tend to laugh off the question, dismissing jokes as meaningless or too obvious to require explanation...read more

By Elliott Oring

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Hardcover:

9780813117744 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, April 27, 1992, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Elliott Oring offers a fresh perspective on jokes and related forms of humor.

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9781412814393 | Transaction Pub, May 1, 2010, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Almost everyone tells and appreciates jokes.

Laugh For God's Sake: Where Jewish Humor and Jewish Ethics Meet

Product Description: Jewish humor is a venerable part of the Jewish historical experience. It has been a constant companion of Jews, as individuals and communities, accompanying them in many lands and and expressing itself in a number of languages. Jewish jokes penetrate virtually every aspect of human relationships, sparing neither Jew nor non-Jew...read more

By Stanley J. Schachter

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9781602800182 | Ktav Pub Inc, February 28, 2008, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Jewish humor is a venerable part of the Jewish historical experience.

The Jokes of Sigmund Freud: A Study in Humor and Jewish Identity

Retells some of the jokes Freud used to make points about human psychology, and examines what these jokes suggest about Freud's own personality

By Elliott Oring

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9780812279108 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, May 1, 1984, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Retells some of the jokes Freud used to make points about human psychology, and examines what these jokes suggest about Freud's own personality

Paperback:

9780765704290 | 3 edition (Jason Aronson Inc, June 30, 2006), cover price $32.99

9780765759764 | Reprint edition (Jason Aronson Inc, May 1, 1997), cover price $26.50

The Genius of the Jewish Joke

Product Description: The Genius of the Jewish Joke focuses on what is distinctive and unusual about Jewish jokes and Jewish humor. Jewish humor is humor by Jews and about Jews, in whatever medium this humor is found. Jokes are defined as short stories, meant to amuse, with a punch line, though Jewish humor exists in many other formsâriddles, comic definitions, parodiesâas well...read more

By Arthur Asa Berger

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9781412805537 | Transaction Pub, March 31, 2006, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: The Genius of the Jewish Joke focuses on what is distinctive and unusual about Jewish jokes and Jewish humor.

9781568219776 | Jason Aronson Inc, June 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Schlemiels and schlimazels, Albert Einstein and Jewish mothers-in-law - what do jokes about Jews reveal about Jewish identity and self-worth?

Gravity Fails: The Comic Jewish Shaping of Modern America

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By James D. Bloom

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9780275977207 | Praeger Pub Text, June 30, 2003, cover price $85.00

The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America

Argues that Jewish comedy is tinged by bitter encounters with anti-Semitism, a desire to be accepted, and concern for a culture disappearing at the same time it draws on a long tradition of Jewish humor.

By Lawrence J. Epstein

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9781891620713 | Public Affairs, October 1, 2001, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Argues that Jewish comedy is tinged by bitter encounters with anti-Semitism, a desire to be accepted, and concern for a culture disappearing at the same time it draws on a long tradition of Jewish humor.

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9781586481629 | Public Affairs, December 17, 2002, cover price $18.95

9789990047448 | Perseus Books Group, December 1, 2002, cover price $0.02

Jewish Jesters: A Study in American Popular Comedy

Product Description: This text deals with ten important Jewish American comedians from an historical perspective and in a systematic manner. The focus is on the impact of Judaism on these humourists and on their relations to American culture and character...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Arthur Asa Berger

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9781572733367 | Hampton Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: This text deals with ten important Jewish American comedians from an historical perspective and in a systematic manner.

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9781572733374 | Hampton Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: This text deals with ten important Jewish American comedians from an historical perspective and in a systematic manner.

Semites and Stereotypes: Characteristics of Jewish Humor

Product Description: With an ongoing international conference, Jewish humor in recent years has been a subject of serious scholarly inquiry. Most academic publications, however, have been individual works representing a particular thesis or viewpoint, generally on literary aspects...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Anat Zajdman (editor) and Avner Ziv (editor)

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9780313261350 | Praeger Pub Text, June 30, 1993, cover price $132.00 | About this edition: With an ongoing international conference, Jewish humor in recent years has been a subject of serious scholarly inquiry.

Jewish Wry: Essays on Jewish Humor

By Robert Alter (corporate author), Joseph Boskin (corporate author), Albert Goldman (corporate author), Irving Howe (corporate author) and Meyer Wiener (corporate author)

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9780814323663 | Wayne State Univ Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $23.95

Comic Image of the Jew: Explorations of a Pop Culture Phenomenon

Product Description: The author's analysis confirms the existence of a Jewish Comic Image that does not appear to mirror directly a lingering Jewish estrangement from, or exclusion by, the larger society. Examines the Jewish Comedian and the Jewish past in association with humor.

By Sig Altman

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9780838678695 | Associated Univ Pr, November 1, 1971, cover price $29.50 | About this edition: The author's analysis confirms the existence of a Jewish Comic Image that does not appear to mirror directly a lingering Jewish estrangement from, or exclusion by, the larger society.

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