Scholars Jennifer Caplan, Jarrod Tanny, and Avinoam Patt discuss Jewish humor and satire as a global phenomenon as well as a ...

On stage on Sept. 7 at the Jewish Theological Seminary, the comedian Alex Edelman told a Jewish joke that he said he once read in an academic journal. It essentially goes like this: A man goes to ...

I hope that readers laugh, cry, ponder and discuss. I hope they see themselves and people they know in some of the situations and stories.“ ...

Fifty years ago, Richard Walter wrote a novel about a somewhat antisemitic West Virginia Buick dealer who wakes up one day to find himself transformed into the world’s most popular Jewish comedian, ...

Is the Jewish joke on the verge of becoming extinct? The Last Jewish Joke, written by the veteran Parisian sociologist Michel Wieviorka, and newly translated into English by Cory Stockwell, argues ...