{"product_id":"wit-happens-global-jewish-humor-9780814352595","title":"Wit Happens: Global Jewish Humor","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eA collection that proves Jewish humor knows no geographic bounds.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSearching for some well-traveled humor? Look no further than this innovative collection, which investigates Jewish humor in television, film, comedy performance, and literature spanning Canada, the US, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. This wide-ranging compilation of Jewish \"humors\"--from the fallout of a Holocaust joke told in Japan, to Mel Brooks's invocation of longstanding Jewish satirization in \u003ci\u003eBlazing Saddles\u003c\/i\u003e, to reevaluations of Jewish comedic themes from Kafka and \u003ci\u003eSeinfeld\u003c\/i\u003e--highlights the transnationality of Jewish identity and humor while emphasizing how Jewish culture shifts in unexpected ways across time and place. The contributions illustrate the value of studying Jewish humor that decenters the US and Ashkenazi-centered analysis, broadening considerations of the possibilities within Jewish cultural production through humor as it transforms globally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eJennifer Caplan\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor and the Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eFunny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials\u003c\/i\u003e (Wayne State University Press) as well as numerous articles and book chapters on Jewish humor. \u003cb\u003eJarrod Tanny\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of history and the Charles and Hannah Block Distinguished Scholar in Jewish History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He is the author of\u003ci\u003e City of Rogues and Schnorrers: Russia's Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe \"Seinfeld\" Talmud: A Jewish Guide to a Show About Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eAvinoam Patt\u003c\/b\u003e is the Maurice and Corrine Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies at New York University and the Ingeborg H. and Ira Leon Rennert Director, NYU Center for the Study of Antisemitism. Among his published works, he is author of\u003ci\u003e Israel and the Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Jewish Heroes of Warsaw: The Afterlife of the Revolt \u003c\/i\u003e(Wayne State University Press). \u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e: Jonathan Abel, Lauren Brooks, Jennifer Caplan, Marat Grinberg, Daniel Heifetz, Ber Kotlerman, Mark Leuchter, Grace Kessler Overbeke, Avinoam Patt, Ariane Santerre, Liat Steir-Livny, Jarrod Tanny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wayne State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52033886191890,"sku":"9780814352595","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_de2e8099-6d0b-438a-bc61-8997f2f66fd0.jpg?v=1770976850","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wit-happens-global-jewish-humor-9780814352595","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}