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In a major work of scholarship or grant both erudite and very funny, Jeremy Dauber traces the roots of Jewish funny and its development from Biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing his publication thematically into what he message or calls the seven strands of Jewish funny - like the satirical, the witty, and the vulgar - Dauber explores the ways Jewish funny has dealt with persecution, assimilation, and diaspora through the age range. He explains the climb and land of popular comic archetypes such as the Jewish mother, the JAP, and the schlemiel and schlimazel. And he explores an enormous range of comic masterpieces, from the Booklet of Esther, Talmudic rabbi jokes, Yiddish satires, Borscht Belt skits, Seinfeld, and Curb Your Eagerness to the task of such masters as Sholem Aleichem, Franz Kafka, the Marx Brothers, Woody Allen, Joan Waterways, Philip Roth, Sarah Silverman, and Jon Stewart.
