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  title info:
    title: Wit happens
    sub title: global Jewish humor
  name:
    name part: Caplan, Jennifer
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Tanny, Jarrod
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Patt, Avinoam J.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  abstract: "Searching for some well-traveled humor? Look no further than this innovative collection, which investigates Jewish humor in television, film, comedy performance, and literature spanning Canada, the US, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. This wide-ranging compilation of Jewish "humors"--from the fallout of a Holocaust joke told in Japan, to Mel Brooks's invocation of longstanding Jewish satirization in Blazing Saddles, to reevaluations of Jewish comedic themes from Kafka and Seinfeld--highlights the transnationality of Jewish identity and humor while emphasizing how Jewish culture shifts in unexpected ways across time and place. The contributions illustrate the value of studying Jewish humor that decenters the US and Ashkenazi-centered analysis, broadening considerations of the possibilities within Jewish cultural production through humor as it transforms globally." --
  table of contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Wit Happens: Global Jewish Humor / Jennifer Caplan, Jarrod Tanny, and Avinoam Patt -- "Is Mel Brooks Also Among the Prophets?" Blazing Saddles, the Biblical Prophets, and "The People of the Land" / Mark Leuchter -- Visualizing the Yiddish Humor: Sholem Aleichem and Charlie Chaplin / Ber Kotlerman -- Franz Kafka and the Resistance: Authority and Its Meaninglessness / Lauren Brooks -- For Whose Benefit? Jean Carroll Performing "Jewish Humor" Through Fundraising / Grace Kessler Overbeke -- The Outrageous Outrage of Romain Gary: A French-Yiddish Take on Holocaust Humor / Ariane Santerre -- How It Emerged from Odessa: Mordecai Richler and Montreal Jewish Humor / Jarrod Tanny -- Parody as Pastiche, Pastiche as Parody: The Global Jewish Humor Cabal or the Cancellation of a Holocaust Joke in Japan / Jonathan A. Abel -- Of Jews and Cats: Joann Sfar and North African Jewish Humor / Jennifer Caplan -- Is It a Wonderful Country? Holocaust Satire in the Israeli Satirical Show Eretz Nehederet / Liat Steir-Livny -- Di Yidn Komen / HaYehudim Ba'im: The Jews Are Coming ... to Laugh Off the Trauma of the Holocaust / Avinoam Patt -- The Travails of Being a Soviet Jewish Comedian: Michael Idov's The Humorist (2019) / Marat Grinberg -- Samson Koletkar, aka Mahatma Moses: The Cultural Politics of Indian Jewish Humor / Daniel Heifetz -- Contributors -- Index
  note: edited by Jennifer Caplan, Jarrod Tanny & Avinoam Patt.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-270) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    genre: Humor
  subject:
    topic: Judaism
    genre: Humor
  subject:
    topic: Jewish wit and humor
  subject:
    topic: Judaïsme
    genre: Humour
  subject:
    topic: Humour juif
  classification: PN6149.J4 W58 2026
  classification: 296.0207
  identifier: 9780814352588
  identifier: 9780814352595
  identifier: 0814352596
  identifier: 0814352588
  identifier: 9780814352601
  identifier: 081435260X
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 250803
    record change date: 20260511152543.0
    record identifier: in00005781200
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng