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Authors: Ruth R. Wisse

No Joke (38 page)

Rabinovich, Sholem.
See
Sholem Aleichem

racial humor,
5
,
136
.
See also
ethnic humor

radio,
124
,
177
,
197
,
199

Radner, Gilda,
210

Raskin, Richard,
113
–
15

Ravnitski, Yehoshua,
64

Rawidowicz, Simon,
228

Reik, Theodor,
8
,
12
,
183
,
219
,
265n10

reliance on humor, Jewish,
21
,
24
,
143
,
149
,
153
–
54
,
182
,
187
,
228
–
29

religious humor,
23
–
24
,
38
,
42
,
48
–
49
,
72
,
74
,
78
–
79
,
91
–
92
,
99
,
116
,
125

repression: Jewish,
135
,
137
,
228
; political,
18
,
148
–
49
,
166
,
177
–
78
,
225
–
26
; and psychoanalysis,
133
,
228
.
See also
censorship

reversals,
23
,
50
,
76
,
79
,
106
,
120
,
175
,
183
,
196
,
210
; as joke technique,
26
,
33
,
174
.
See also
inversion

Rilke, Rainer Maria,
94

Ringelblum, Emanuel,
152
–
54

Riskin, Rabbi Shlomo,
234

Rivers (Molinsky Sanger Rosenberg), Joan,
130

Roman (Kirschenbaum), Freddy,
122

Romanticism,
36
,
38
–
40
,
43
,
48
,
69

Rosten, Leo (Leonard Q. Ross),
118
–
21
;
The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N
,
118
–
21
;
The Joys of Yiddish
,
121
;
The Joys of Yinglish
,
121

Roth, Henry:
Call It Sleep
,
132

Roth, Philip,
28
,
131
–
42
,
176
,
212
,
220
,
241
,
259n25
;
The Breast
,
133
;
Portnoy's Complaint
,
132
–
42
,
176
;
Our Gang
,
133

Rothschild, Salomon,
30
,
45
,
49
–
50
,
79

Russia,
12
,
60
,
63
,
67
–
68
,
70
,
84
,
97
,
106
,
148
,
156
,
158
,
186
,
188
,
230

Russian civil war,
161

Russian humor,
18
,
27
,
62
,
155
–
67
,
188
,
260n11

Russian Jews,
64
,
68
,
70
,
73
,
84
,
97
,
101
,
108
,
158
,
162
,
172

Russian-Polish war,
161

Ruth, Book of,
94

sabbath,
14
–
16
,
27
,
49
,
65
,
79
,
88
,
91
,
109
–
10
,
131
,
153
,
156
; jokes about,
6
,
33
,
81
,
85
; in Yiddish theater,
125
,
144

sabra,
184
,
194
,
196
,
213

Sadan, Dov,
187
,
246

Sadat, Anwar,
207

Saddam Hussein,
208
–
9

Saphir, Moritz,
258n11

Sarah,
22
,
94

Satan,
190
–
91

satire,
27
,
31
,
46
–
48
,
187
,
190
,
243
,
258n11
; British,
107
,
111
,
113
,
117
,
239
–
42
; German,
50
,
242
; in Israel,
202
,
210
; Jewish Enlightenment,
70
–
72
,
80
,
145
; Jews as targets of,
105
,
237
; morality in,
48
,
141
; of Nazism,
179
–
81
; in Russia,
160
,
176
; social,
111
,
117
,
187
,
240

Saturday Night Live
,
210
–
11
,
231

scatological humor,
46
,
71
,
78
–
79
,
83
.
See also
vulgarity

Schiller, Friedrich von,
36

schlemiels,
12
–
13
,
20
,
100
,
129
,
146
,
231
,
237
–
38

schleppers,
184

schlimazels,
20
,
129

Schmidman, Joshua,
26

Schnitzler, Arthur:
Der Weg ins Freie
(The road into the open),
8
–
10
,
35

schnorrers,
15
,
32
–
33
,
79
–
80
,
107
–
12
,
121

scholarship on humor,
12
–
13

Scholem, Gershom,
136
,
138
,
192
,
220

Schumacher, Yisroel,
144
–
46
,
155
,
185
–
86
,
201

Schwartzkopf, Norman,
210

Scottish humor,
2
,
13
,
250n10

Second Intifada,
218

Seinfeld
,
212
,
231
,
236

Seinfeld, Jerry,
130
,
231

self-deprecation,
7
,
11
,
13
,
34
,
152

self-mockery,
106
,
126
,
147
,
166
,
195
,
232

Sephardim.
See
Mizrahim

Serkele
(Ettinger),
254n6

sex,
47
,
83
,
133
–
34
,
136
,
138
,
141
,
233

sexual humor,
72
,
83
,
85
,
230
,
233
.
See also
vulgarity

Sforim, Mendele Mocher,
17
,
263n5
;
Dos kleyne mentshele
(The little man),
263n5

shabbos,
131
.
See also
sabbath

shadkhen
(marriage broker),
32
–
33
.
See also
matchmakers

Shakespeare, William,
45
,
107
,
145
,
211
,
240

Shalev, Meir,
217

Shmeruk, Khone,
83

Shoah.
See
Holocaust

Sholem Aleichem (Rabinovich),
14
,
16
–
17
,
25
,
28
,
59
–
67
,
74
,
85
,
87
,
89
–
92
,
100
–
103
,
140
,
162
,
168
,
171
,
177
–
78
,
182
,
206
,
237
–
38
,
241
; “The Haunted Tailor” (“The Chelm Goat Mystery”),
100
–
102
;
The Letters of Menahem Mendl and Sheyne-Sheyndl
,
87
–
88
; “Two Anti-Semites,”
59
–
62
,
74
,
90

shperl
,
171
–
72

shpil
,
67

shpritz,
41
,
132

shtetl,
68
,
87
,
159

Shylock,
107
–
8

Silverman, Sarah,
234

Sinatra, Frank,
124

Singer, I. J.,
97

Singer, Isaac Bashevis (Yitzhok Bashevis),
2
,
79
–
80
,
93
,
97
–
99
,
237
,
256n29
; “Gimpel the Fool,”
98
–
99
,
237

Singin' in the Rain
,
230
–
31

Six-Day War,
166

Skibell, Joseph,
238

slapstick,
202
,
205
,
229
–
31
,
233

socialism,
22
,
36
,
124
,
147

Soviet Union,
93
,
147
–
49
,
155
–
72
,
175
–
77
,
186
.
See also
Russia

Spinoza, Baruch,
24

“Springtime for Hitler” (Brooks),
180
–
81

Srulik,
196

Stalin, Joseph,
17
,
93
,
127
,
147
–
48
,
151
,
156
,
160
,
162
–
63
,
165
,
168
,
172
,
175
–
76
,
178
,
226
,
238

stand-up comedy.
See
professional comedy

stereotypes: as feature of joking,
2
,
227
; goyish,
130
,
137
,
232
; Jewish,
8
,
16
,
59
,
97
,
107
,
112
,
130
,
135
; national,
2

storytellers,
76
,
189

storytelling,
77
,
194

Strashun, Matthew,
159

sublimation,
57

Sukkoth,
151

survival: Jewish,
3
,
17
,
81
,
154
,
167
,
204
,
213
,
215
–
16
,
236
,
243
; humor as a strategy for,
141
,
154
,
178

Survivor
,
236

synagogues,
1
,
79
,
104
,
109
,
112
,
125
,
156
,
212
,
221
–
22

Syrkin, Marie,
135
,
138
,
220

Syrkin, Nahman,
253n29

taboos,
61
,
136
–
37
,
140
,
219

Talmud,
13
,
22
–
23
,
76
,
81
,
88
,
97
,
145
,
190
,
224
,
238

Talmudic study,
80
–
82
,
86
,
156
,
195
,
235

taste: good vs. bad,
50
,
179
,
234

taufjuden
,
57

Tel Aviv,
11
,
19
,
59
,
75
,
207
,
218

telegrams,
162
–
63
,
225
–
26

television,
124
,
197
,
199
,
209
–
12
,
232
,
239
–
40
; American,
139
,
211
–
12
,
230
–
31
,
234
–
36
,
238
; Israeli,
211

Telushkin, Joseph,
182

Tevye the Dairyman,
65
–
66
,
103
,
168
,
171
,
182
–
83
. See also
Fiddler on the Roof

Three Stooges,
130
,
230

Till Eulenspiegel,
78

timing,
124
,
181
,
220

To Be or Not to Be
(Lubitsch),
179
–
80

Todlachen,
25

Tom Jones
(Henry Fielding),
72

Torah,
86
,
88
,
234
–
35
.
See also
Bible

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