With an ongoing international conference, Jewish humor in recent years has been a subject of serious scholarly inquiry. Most academic publications, however, have been individual works representing a particular thesis or viewpoint, generally on literary aspects. The present collection of essays by scholars from England, France, the United States, Denmark, Israel, and Australia explores characteristics of Jewish humor from a variety of perspectives, including anthropology, literature, psychology, sociology, and religion.
Geographically, the work distinguishes between the Jewish humor of...
With an ongoing international conference, Jewish humor in recent years has been a subject of serious scholarly inquiry. Most academic publications,...
