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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Jewish joke
    sub title: a short history - with punchlines
  name:
    name part: Baum, Devorah
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 184 pages ; 20 cm.
  abstract: Comedy is full of famously funny Jews, from Groucho Marx to Sarah Silverman, from Larry David to Jerry Seinfeld. This smart and funny book includes tales from many of these much-loved comics, and will appeal to their broad audience, while revealing the history, context and wider culture of Jewish joking. The Jewish joke is as old as Abraham, and like the Jews themselves it has wandered over the world, learned countless new languages, worked with a range of different materials, been performed in front of some pretty hostile crowds and yet still retained its own distinctive identity. So what is it that animates the Jewish joke? Why are Jews so often thought of as 'funny'? And how old can a joke get?
  table of contents: Introduction. How do you tell the difference between a shlemiel and a shlimazel? -- Less essay, more examples. How do you tell the difference between one Jew and another Jew? ; How do you tell the difference between a Jew and a Gentile? ; How do you tell the difference between a Jewish person and a comedian? ; How do you tell the difference between a Jew and a parrot? ; How do you tell the difference between a Jew and an anti-Semite? ; How do you tell the difference between joking and not joking? ; How do you tell the difference between a blessing and a curse? ; How do you tell the difference between a good deal and a bad deal? ; How do you tell the difference between a tailor and a psychiatrist? ; How do you tell the difference between morality and neurosis? ; How do you tell the difference between a Jewish woman and a shiksa? ; How do you tell the difference between a Jewish mother and a Jewish mother-in-law? ; How do you tell the difference between a male Jewish comedian and a female Jewish comedian? ; How do you tell the difference between a king and a beggar? ; How do you tell the difference between Jews and Israelis? ; How do you tell the difference between life and death? ; How do you tell the difference between the Trinity and the Almighty? ; How do you tell the difference between man and God? ; How do you tell the difference between a good joke and a bad joke? ; How do you tell the difference between comedy and theology? ; How do you tell the difference between Jewish and Goyish? ; How do you tell the difference between sporting and joking? -- And finally... How do you tell the difference?
  note: Devorah Baum.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Jewish wit and humor
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Jewish comedians
  subject:
    topic: Jewish entertainers
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    genre: Humor
  subject:
    topic: Wit and humor
  classification: 296
  identifier: 9781681777429
  identifier: 1681777428
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 171009
    record change date: 20180718090203.0
    record identifier: in00004030687