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    of humor in Judaism dates back to the compilation of the Torah and the Midrash in the ancient Middle East, but the most famous form of Jewish humor consists...
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    Black comedy (redirect from Black humor)
    Black comedy, also known as black humor, bleak comedy, dark comedy, dark humor, gallows humor or morbid humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of...
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    Nazi-organized Jewish ghettos, in particular, the Warsaw Ghetto. Among other things, the archive documented the humor perspective of the inhumane Jewish life....
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    [2001]. "1950s Jewish Humor". Reform Judaism. New York City. Retrieved 2024-04-23 – via My Jewish Learning. Before World War II, the Jewish presence in the...
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    at times other than at these events was frowned upon. Jewish humor is the long tradition of humor in Judaism dating back to the Torah and the Midrash,...
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    Jews (redirect from Jewish)
    art, Jewish music, Jewish humor, Jewish theatre, Jewish cuisine and Jewish medicine. Jews have established various Jewish political movements, religious...
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    Schnorrer (category Jewish comedy and humor)
    World of Yiddish, 2002, p.76 Abrami, Leo M. "The Targets of Jewish Humor". My Jewish Learning. Retrieved 19 June 2024. Dalzell, Tom (11 May 2018). The...
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    antisemitism History of antisemitism Jewish cuisine Jewish culture Jewish diaspora Jewish ethnic divisions Jewish history Jewish humor Model minority Perpetual foreigner...
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  • William Novak (category Jewish American non-fiction writers)
    Johnson. He is also the editor, with Moshe Waldoks, of The Big Book of Jewish Humor. He has also written several "private" books, which he described in a...
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  • JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling is a 2023 poetry collection published by the Jewish Publication Society and edited by...
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  • immersion in Jewish literature (including such non-religious Jewish authors as Philip Roth and Amos Oz), consumption of Jewish food, use of Jewish humor, and...
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  • Ostrower [he], הומור כמנגנון הגנה בשואה ["Humor as a defense mechanism in the Holocaust"] Sover, Arie. 2021. Jewish Humor: An outcome of Historical Experience...
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  • Anti-humor or anti-comedy is a type of alternative humor that is based on the surprise factor of absence of an expected joke or of a punch line in a narration...
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  • Although humor is a phenomenon experienced by most humans, its exact cause is a topic of heavy debate. There are many theories of humor which attempt to...
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  • jokes Elephant joke Ethnic joke Flatulence humor Hindu joke Holocaust humor In-joke In Soviet Russia Jewish humor Joke chess problem Knock-knock joke Lawyer...
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    Ethnic joke (redirect from Race humor)
    describes the main binary oppositions providing examples (mostly from Jewish humor), Davies explores the situations where the scripts apply; for example...
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  • The Joys of Yiddish (category Jewish comedy and humor)
    book not only a useful reference, but also a treasured collection of Jewish humor. As is inevitable with any book that references popular culture, it quickly...
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  • meaning "inept/incompetent person" or "fool". It is a common archetype in Jewish humor, and so-called "schlemiel jokes" depict the schlemiel falling into unfortunate...
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    B. J. Novak (category Jewish American comedy writers)
    (née Manaly) and author William Novak. He is Jewish. His father co-edited The Big Book of Jewish Humor, and has ghostwritten memoirs for Nancy Reagan...
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    Alan King (category American people of Russian-Jewish descent)
    first recipient (1988) of the award for American Jewish humor from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. The award was ultimately named in his honor...
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  • Greetings from Miami Beach". Jewish Humor Central. Retrieved December 31, 2022. When You're in Love the Whole World is Jewish Margalit Fox (January 12, 2014)...
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  • heavily influenced by Jewish humor and actors from the 20th century. Howard has been likened to a schlimazel, a stock Jewish humor character marked by his...
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    Adam Sandler (category American people of Russian-Jewish descent)
    January 10, 2022. Retrieved July 30, 2018. "Let There Be Laughter – Jewish Humor Around the World". Beit Hatfutsot. February 6, 2017. Archived from the...
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  • American-Jewish comedy is, in part, a continuation of the traditional role of humor in Jewish culture among historical and contemporary American performers...
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  • setting in a family of Hasidic Jews, a milieu that was a standard butt of Jewish humor among the "enlightened" Jews of the Haskalah.[citation needed] The secondary...
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  • the 20th century at least, has been the influx of Jewish comedians and their corresponding Jewish humor, including some of the most influential: The Three...
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  • Chicago. Odesa humor is a notable part of both Jewish humor and Russian humor. Since 1972 Odesa has been hosting the annual festival of humor, Humorina. For...
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  • in 1973. Its content contained many examples of Jewish humor. Another parody featuring Jewish humor, Jonathan Segal Chicken, was written by Sol Weinstein...
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  • Jesse Novak (category Jewish American musicians)
    from a Jewish family in Massachusetts. His parents are Linda (née Manaly) and author William Novak. His father co-edited The Big Book of Jewish Humor, and...
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    its humor. Ames then said to Carson: "Think I'm going into another business, John." To which Carson ad-libbed: "I didn't even know you were Jewish!" and...
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