Jewish Comedy: A Serious History Audiobook (Free)

In a major work of scholarship both erudite and very funny, Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its own development from Biblical times to the age of Twitter.Organizing his publication thematically into what he telephone calls the seven strands of Jewish comedy-including the satirical, the witty, as well as the vulgar-Dauber explores the ways Jewish comedy has handled persecution, assimilation, and diaspora through the age groups. He points out the rise and fall of popular comic archetypes like the Jewish mother, the JAP, and the schlemiel and schlimazel. And he explores an enormous selection of comic masterpieces, through the Reserve of Esther, Talmudic rabbi jokes, Yiddish satires, Borscht Belt skits, Seinfeld, and LIMIT YOUR Enthusiasm to the task of such experts as Sholem Aleichem, Franz Kafka, the Marx Brothers, Woody Allen, Joan Rivers, Philip Roth, Sarah Silverman, and Jon Stewart.