Jews and Humor

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Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1612491553
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)

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Book Synopsis Jews and Humor by : Leonard J. Greenspoon

Download or read book Jews and Humor written by Leonard J. Greenspoon and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jews and humor is, for most people, a natural and felicitous collocation. In spite of, or perhaps because of, a history of crises and living on the edge, Jews have often created or resorted to humor. But what is humor? And what makes certain types, instances, or performances of humor "Jewish"? These are among the myriad queries addressed by the fourteen authors whose essays are collected in this volume. And, thankfully, their observations, always apt and often witty, are expressed with a lightness of style and a depth of analysis that are appropriate to the many topics they cover. The scholars who contributed to this collection allow readers both to discern the common features that make up "Jewish humor" and to delight in the individualism and eccentricities of the many figures whose lives and accomplishments are narrated here. Because these essays are written in a clear, jargon-free style, they will appeal to everyone—even those who don't usually crack a smile!

Melodious Accord

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ISBN 13 : 9780929650432
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (54 download)

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Book Synopsis Melodious Accord by : Alice Parker

Download or read book Melodious Accord written by Alice Parker and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dying for God

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804737045
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Dying for God by : Daniel Boyarin

Download or read book Dying for God written by Daniel Boyarin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have come to realize that we can and need to speak of a twin birth of Christianity and Judaism, not a genealogy in which one is parent to the other. In this book, the author develops a revised understanding of the interactions between nascent Christianity and nascent Judaism in late antiquity.

Execution and Invention

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198039840
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis Execution and Invention by : Beth A. Berkowitz

Download or read book Execution and Invention written by Beth A. Berkowitz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-23 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death penalty in classical Judaism has been a highly politicized subject in modern scholarship. Enlightenment attacks on the Talmud's legitimacy led scholars to use the Talmud's criminal law as evidence for its elevated morals. But even more pressing was the need to prove Jews' innocence of the charge of killing Christ. The reconstruction of a just Jewish death penalty was a defense against the accusation that a corrupt Jewish court was responsible for the death of Christ. In Execution and Invention, Beth A. Berkowitz tells the story of modern scholarship on the ancient rabbinic death penalty and offers a fresh perspective using the approaches of ritual studies, cultural criticism, and talmudic source criticism. Against the scholarly consensus, Berkowitz argues that the early Rabbis used the rabbinic laws of the death penalty to establish their power in the wake of the destruction of the Temple. Following recent currents in historiography, Berkowitz sees the Rabbis as an embattled, almost invisible sect within second-century Judaism. The function of their death penalty laws, Berkowitz contends, was to create a complex ritual of execution under rabbinic control, thus bolstering rabbinic claims to authority in the context of Roman political and cultural domination. Understanding rabbinic literature to be in dialogue with the Bible, with the variety of ancient Jews, and with Roman imperialism, Berkowitz shows how the Rabbis tried to create an appealing alternative to the Roman, paganized culture of Palestine's Jews. In their death penalty, the Rabbis substituted Rome's power with their own. Early Christians, on the other hand, used death penalty discourse to critique judicial power. But Berkowitz argues that the Christian critique of execution produced new claims to authority as much as the rabbinic embrace. By comparing rabbinic conversations about the death penalty with Christian ones, Berkowitz reveals death penalty discourse as a significant means of creating authority in second-century western religious cultures. Advancing the death penalty discourse as a discourse of power, Berkowitz sheds light on the central relationship between religious and political authority and the severest form of punishment.

The Genius of the Jewish Joke

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Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412824435
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

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Book Synopsis The Genius of the Jewish Joke by : Arthur Asa Berger

Download or read book The Genius of the Jewish Joke written by Arthur Asa Berger and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Genius of the Jewish Joke focuses on what is distinctive and unusual about Jewish jokes and Jewish humor. Jewish humor is humor by Jews and about Jews, in whatever medium this humor is found. Jokes are defined as short stories, meant to amuse, with a punch line, though Jewish humor exists in many other forms—riddles, comic definitions, parodies—as well. The book makes a "radical" suggestion about the origin of Jewish humor—namely, that Sarah and Abraham's relation to God, and the name of their son Isaac (which, in Hebrew, means laughter), recognizes a special affinity in Jews for humor. Abraham does not sacrifice Isaac (humor) and, thus, humor and the Jews are linked early in Jewish history. Berger discusses techniques of humor and how they can be used to analyze jokes. He also compares "Old World Jewish Humor"—the humor of the shtetl, with its fabulous schlemiels, schlimazels, schnorrers, and other characters—and "New World Humor"—the humor of Jewish doctors, lawyers, accountants, and other professional types living mostly in the suburbs nowadays. Jewish humor is contrasted with other forms of ethnic humor, such as Polish jokes and Italian American jokes. This humor, in addition to providing pleasure, reveals a great deal about Jewish character and culture and, in addition, the human condition. Now available with a new introduction by the author, The Genius of the Jewish Joke is an entertaining and informative inquiry into Jewish humor that explores its distinctiveness, its unique spirit, and its role in Jewish identity.

Socrates and the Fat Rabbis

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226069184
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Book Synopsis Socrates and the Fat Rabbis by : Daniel Boyarin

Download or read book Socrates and the Fat Rabbis written by Daniel Boyarin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What kind of literature is the Talmud? To answer this question, Daniel Boyarin looks to an unlikely source: the dialogues of Plato. In these ancient texts he finds similarities, both in their combination of various genres and topics and in their dialogic structure. But Boyarin goes beyond these structural similarities, arguing also for a cultural relationship.In Socrates and the Fat Rabbis, Boyarin suggests that both the Platonic and the talmudic dialogues are not dialogic at all. Using Michael Bakhtin’s notion of represented dialogue and real dialogism, Boyarin demonstrates, through multiple close readings, that the give-and-take in these texts is actually much closer to a monologue in spirit. At the same time, he shows that there is a dialogism in both texts on a deeper structural level between a voice of philosophical or religious dead seriousness and a voice from within that mocks that very high solemnity at the same time. Boyarin ultimately singles out Menippean satire as the most important genre through which to understand both the Talmud and Plato, emphasizing their seriocomic peculiarity.An innovative advancement in rabbinic studies, as well as a bold and controversial new way of reading Plato, Socrates and the Fat Rabbis makes a major contribution to scholarship on thought and culture of the ancient Mediterranean.

Semantic Mechanisms of Humor

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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400964722
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Semantic Mechanisms of Humor by : V. Raskin

Download or read book Semantic Mechanisms of Humor written by V. Raskin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GOAL This is the funniest book I have ever written - and the ambiguity here is deliberate. Much of this book is about deliberate ambiguity, described as unambiguously as possible, so the previous sentence is probably the fIrst, last, and only deliberately ambiguous sentence in the book. Deliberate ambiguity will be shown to underlie much, if not all, of verbal humor. Some of its forms are simple enough to be perceived as deliberately ambiguous on the surface; in others, the ambiguity results from a deep semantic analysis. Deep semantic analysis is the core of this approach to humor. The book is the fIrst ever application of modem linguistic theory to the study of humor and it puts forward a formal semantic theory of verbal humor. The goal of the theory is to formulate the necessary and sufficient conditions, in purely semantic terms, for a text to be funny. In other words, if a formal semantic analysis of a text yields a certain set of semantic proptrties which the text possesses, then the text is recognized as a joke. As any modem linguistic theory, this semantic theory of humor attempts to match a natural intuitive ability which the native speaker has, in this particular case, the ability to perceive a text as funny, i. e. , to distinguish a joke from a non-joke.

Semites and Stereotypes

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Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Semites and Stereotypes by : Avner Ziv

Download or read book Semites and Stereotypes written by Avner Ziv and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1993-04-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Israel and that of the diaspora; historically, it traces Jewish humor to the Bible. The linkages with Judaism and the Yiddish language are explored. Essays deal with the Jewish use of humor in stressful and tragic situations, with self-disparagement in Jewish humor, with anti-semitism and stereotyping, and with Jewish women as the objects of humor. The contributions to world culture of humorists Sholom Aleichem, Woody Allen, Philip Roth, Charlie Chaplin, and numerous contemporary performers are discussed as are the Jewish theorists of humor, including Sigmund Freud, Henri Bergson, and Arthur Koestler. An interdisciplinary book, it will be of interest to students and researchers of Jewish tradition and folklore, Jewish-American literature, American studies, and humor, popular culture, anthropology, psychology, and sociology.

The Idea of Biblical Interpretation

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004136304
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Book Synopsis The Idea of Biblical Interpretation by : James L. Kugel

Download or read book The Idea of Biblical Interpretation written by James L. Kugel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Festschrift, James Kugel's creative scholarship in biblical interpretation provides the inspiration for a wide-ranging collection of essays that treat the history of Jewish and Christian scriptural interpretation from antiquity to the present

Jewish Humor

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062012851
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Book Synopsis Jewish Humor by : Joseph Telushkin

Download or read book Jewish Humor written by Joseph Telushkin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are more than 100 of the best Jewish jokes you'll ever hear, interspersed with perceptive and persuasive insight into what they can tell us about how Jews see themselves, their families, and their friends, and what they think about money, sex, and success. Rabbi Joseph Telushkin is as celebrated for his wit as for his scholarship, and in this immensely entertaining book, he displays both in equal measure. Stimulating, something stinging, and always very, very funny, Jewish Humor offers a classic portrait of the Jewish collective unconscious.

In Potiphar's House

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ISBN 13 : 9780674445635
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Book Synopsis In Potiphar's House by : James L. Kugel

Download or read book In Potiphar's House written by James L. Kugel and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this illuminating study of early biblical interpretation, James Kugel examines a series of exegetical stories that elaborate on the Joseph narrative in Genesis. These stories - which appear in such diverse sources as rabbinic midrash, early Christian writings, liturgical poetry, and the Quran - often contain details or whole incidents not found in the Bible itself. In tracing the development and function of these tales, Kugel reveals a dynamic interpretive process: the living, changing significance of texts through generations of discussion, analysis, and application.

Mine and Yours are Hers

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004332456
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Mine and Yours are Hers by : Ilan

Download or read book Mine and Yours are Hers written by Ilan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the interaction between history, rabbinic literature and feminist studies. Recent approaches to rabbinic literature have overturned the traditional view of these writings and new literary methods were suggested, mostly denying them all historical value. But rabbinic literature constitutes the main source for the lives of Jews in Palestine and Babylonia during the late Roman period, and thus should not be totally rejected. This study suggests a new post-literary approach, i.e. it discusses the residue of the texts after these have been analyzed and dissected by literary critics. But mainly this is a book about women's history, adopting many assumptions of feminist criticism about the androcentric nature of all ancient texts, and approaches them with due suspicion. The Rabbis treated women differently from the way they treated men. This resulted in the former's marginalization and manipulation by the texts. On the other hand, however, it created an ironic situation whereby principles useful for the recovery of historical information on women, are useless when applied to men. This study describes such principles and demonstrates them with the help of many examples.

Together Through Eternity

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ISBN 13 : 9781839758805
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (588 download)

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Book Synopsis Together Through Eternity by : Ian Robinson

Download or read book Together Through Eternity written by Ian Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph, a lonely, elderly man, meets 17 year old care assistant Jessica and through love and laughter, she teaches him to face life head on - just in time.

Peshat and Derash

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195353935
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis Peshat and Derash by : David Weiss Halivni

Download or read book Peshat and Derash written by David Weiss Halivni and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the days of Plato, the problem of the efficacy and adequacy of the written word as a vehicle of human communication has challenged mankind, yet the mystery of how best to achieve clarity and exactitude of written expression has never been solved. The most repercussive instance of this universal problem has been the exegesis of the law embodied in Hebrew scripture. Peshat and Derash is the first book to trace the Jewish interpretative enterprise from a historical perspective. Applying his vast knowledge of Rabbinic materials to the long history of Jewish exegesis of both Bible and Talmud, Halivni investigates the tension that has often existed between the plain sense of the divine text (peshat) and its creative, Rabbinic interpretations (derash). Halivni addresses the theological implications of the deviation of derash from peshat and explores the differences between the ideological extreme of the religious right, which denies that Judaism has a history, and the religious left, which claims that history is all that Judaism has. A comprehensive and critical narration of the history and repercussions of Rabbinic exegesis, this analysis will interest students of legal texts, hermeneutics, and scriptural traditions, as well as anyone involved in Jewish studies.

Midrash and Literature

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Publisher : New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300034530
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (345 download)

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Book Synopsis Midrash and Literature by : Geoffrey H. Hartman

Download or read book Midrash and Literature written by Geoffrey H. Hartman and published by New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays discuss Jewish critical interpretations of the Bible and the influence of these writings on modern literature

Midrash and Multiplicity

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110209225
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Midrash and Multiplicity by : Steven Daniel Sacks

Download or read book Midrash and Multiplicity written by Steven Daniel Sacks and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer represents a late development in "midrash", or classical rabbinic interpretation, that has enlightened, intrigued and frustrated scholars of Jewish culture for the past two centuries. Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer's challenge to scholarship includes such issues as the work's authorship and authenticity, an asymmetrical literary structure as well as its ambiguous relationship with a variety of rabbinic, Islamic and Hellenistic works of interpretation. This cluster of issues has contributed to the confusion about the work's structure, origins and identity. Midrash and Multiplicity addresses the problems raised by this equivocal work, and uses Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer in order to assess the nature of "midrash", and the renewal of Jewish interpretive culture, during its transition to the medieval era of the early "Geonim".

A Treasury of Jewish Folklore

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 741 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis A Treasury of Jewish Folklore by : Nathan Ausubel

Download or read book A Treasury of Jewish Folklore written by Nathan Ausubel and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: