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Informationen zum Autor Eli Lederhendler is a modern Jewish historian who specializes in American and European Jewish politics, society, and migration. He has taught at Yale University, University College London, Vassar College, Tel-Aviv University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Gabriel N. Finder is Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director of the Jewish Studies at the University of Virginia. His research interests lie in the Holocaust and in the rebuilding of Jewish life in Europe in its aftermath. Klappentext Volume XXIX of Studies in Contemporary Jewry provides a nuanced account of the history and development of Jewish humor, while also making a case for the importance of humor in studying any culture. Zusammenfassung Volume XXIX of Studies in Contemporary Jewry provides a nuanced account of the history and development of Jewish humor, while also making a case for the importance of humor in studying any culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Symposium A Club of Their Own: Jewish Humorists and the Contemporary World Steven Beller, "The Right Mélange": Viennese Operetta as a Stage for Jewish Humor Edward Portnoy, Purim on Pesach: The Invented Tradition of Passover Yontef-bletlekh in the Warsaw Yiddish Press Stephen J. Whitfield, Jackie Mason: The Comedian as Ethnographer Jarrod Tanny, Decoding Seinfeld's Jewishness Michael Berkowitz, "Humour Wholesalers"? Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran's Anglo-Jewish Television Comedy Carol Zemel, Funny-Looking: Thoughts on Jewish Visual Humor Anna Shternshis, Humor and Russian Jewish Identity Avinoam Patt, "Laughter through Tears": Jewish Humor in the Aftermath of the Holocaust Kerstin Steitz, And Hannah Laughed: The Role of Irony in Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem Gabriel N. Finder, An Irony of History: Ephraim Kishon's German Triumph Diego Rotman, The "Tsadik from Plonsk" and "Goldenyu": Political Satire in Dzigan and Shumacher's Israeli Comic Repertoire Limor Shifman, Humor and Ethnicity on Israeli Television: A Historical Perspective Asal Dardan, From Monsters to Pop Icons: The Use of Humor in Films on Nazis and Hitler since Der Untergang David Slucki, Making Out in Anne Frank's Attic: Humor and the Holocaust in Australia Essay Richard I. Cohen, In Memoriam: Ezra Mendelsohn Review Essay Olga Litvak, The New Marranos Book Reviews (arranged by subject) Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide Esther Farbstein, Beseter hamadregah: hayahadut haortodoksit behungariyah nokha? hashoah (Hidden in the Heights: Orthodox Jewry in Hungary during the Holocaust), Haim Genizi Amos Goldberg, Traumah beguf rishon: ketivat yomanim bitkufat hashoah (Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing during the Holocaust), Omri Herzog Michal Shaul, Pe'er tahat 'efer: hahevrah haharedit beyisrael betzel hashoah 1945-1961 (Beauty for Ashes: Holocaust Memory and the Rehabilitation of Ashkenazi Haredi Society in Israel 1945-1961), Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz Ben Urwand, The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler, Ofer Ashkenazi Cultural Studies Joy Calico, Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe, Yoel Greenberg Olga Gershenson, The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe, Olga Litvak Ernest B. Gilman, Yiddish Poetry and the Tuberculosis Sanatorium 1900-1970, Jan Schwarz Rina Lapidus, Jewish Women Writers in the Soviet Union, Olga Litvak Harriet Murav, Music from a Speeding Train: Jewish Literature in Post-Revolutionary Russia, Olga Litvak Efraim Sicher (ed.), Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses about "Jews" in the Twenty- First Century, Mitchell B. Hart Yosef Tobi and Tsivia Tobi, Judeo-Arabic Literature in Tunisia, 1850-1950, Norman (Noam) A. Stillman History and Biography Mordechai Altshuler, Religion and Jewish Identity in the Soviet Union, 1941-1964, trans. Saadya Sternberg, Ol...
