No Joke (36 page)

Great Dictator, The
(Chaplin),
179

Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel,
128

Grossman, David:
See: Under Love
,
215

Grotjahn, Martin,
12

gulags,
17
,
149
.
See also
concentration camps

Gulf War,
207
–
9

Gutfreund, Amir:
Shoah shelanu
(
Our Holocaust
),
216
–
17

Gypsy
,
104

Haaretz
,
136

Hagashash hahiver (Hagashashim),
199
–
206
,
211
,
263n15
;
Hill Halfon Doesn't Answer
,
204
–
6
; “The Judge and the Referee,”
199
; “Kreker vs. Kreker,”
203
–
4

Haggai, Book of,
78
–
79

Halkin, Hillel,
13

Halpern, Moishe Leyb,
96

Haman,
23
,
95
,
151
,
209

Hanina, Rabbi,
81

Hanukkah,
120

Harvard University,
1
,
5
–
7
,
11
,
227
,
234
,
245
–
47

Hasidism,
43
,
69
–
72
,
74
–
77
,
79
–
80
,
115

Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment),
68
–
71
,
75
,
80
,
145

Hatikvah
(The Hope),
28
,
187

Hebrew language,
62
,
50
,
80
,
156
,
183
–
84
,
193
–
94
,
197
–
99
,
210
,
212
,
214
–
15
,
232
–
34
; Academy of the Hebrew Language,
198
; punning in,
80
–
81
; specific words in,
34
,
98
,
151
,
184
,
196
,
200
,
208
,
210
; vs. Yiddish,
16
–
17
,
68
–
69
,
150
,
158
,
185

Hebrew literature,
13
,
18
,
68
,
71
,
136
,
159
,
188
,
190
,
192
,
217

Heine, Heinrich,
14
–
18
,
29
,
35
–
51
,
53
,
56
–
60
,
65
,
67
,
79
,
91
,
93
–
94
,
96
,
104
,
111
,
137
,
171
–
72
,
229
,
242
,
252n7
,
252n15
,
256
–
57n31
,
263n5
; “The Baths of Lucca,”
40
–
44
,
59
; “Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam,”
38
–
39
;
Ludwig Börne: A Memorial
,
29
; “Princess Sabbath,”
14
–
16

Heine's Jewish Comedy
(Prawer),
46
–
47

hermetic humor,
82
–
83
,
149
,
152

Hershele Ostropolier,
77
–
79
,
90
,
161
,
254
–
55n12

Herzl, Theodor,
30
–
32
,
35
,
184
,
189
–
90
,
251n6
,
253n29
;
Altneuland
(Old-new land),
30

Hezbollah,
241

Hill 24 Doesn't Answer
,
204
,
206

Hitler, Adolf,
17
,
127
,
143
–
44
,
147
–
48
,
151
,
178
–
81
,
189
,
226
,
234
,
238

Hitler-Stalin pact,
93
,
147

Hollywood,
126
,
236
,
239

Holocaust,
17
–
18
,
65
,
153
,
214
–
16
,
224
,
236
–
37
,
241

Holocaust humor,
151
–
54
,
178
–
81
,
213
–
15
,
218
–
19
,
224
,
236
–
37
.
See also
gallows humor
;
ghetto humor

homosexuality,
47
–
48
,
232
–
33

horror: and Jewish humor,
183
,
219

humorlessness,
13
,
22
; in Israel,
182
–
85
,
187
,
194
–
95

Hus, Jan,
222

Ilf, Ilya,
160
–
61
;
The Twelve Chairs
,
161

incongruities,
16
,
33
,
51
,
64
,
75
,
99
,
127
,
129
,
131
,
140
,
190
,
228
,
232

Inquisition,
21
,
51
,
57
,
108

In the Heart of Seas
(Agnon),
189
–
92

inversions,
23
,
51
,
77
,
80
,
106
,
177
,
190
.
See also
reversals

irony,
31
,
34
,
49
,
75
,
81
,
86
–
87
,
133
,
163
–
64
,
166
,
176
,
192
,
197
,
222
,
227
; of Jewish experience,
23
,
27
–
28
,
97
,
151
,
154
,
206
,
216
–
17

Isaiah, Book of,
81
,
255n14

Israel,
3
,
10
–
11
,
18
–
19
,
88
–
89
,
92
,
117
,
134
,
166
–
67
,
182
–
220
,
233
,
239
–
40
,
242

Israel Defense Forces (IDF),
199

Israeli humor,
10
–
11
,
18
–
19
,
182
–
220

Israel Independence Day,
206

Israel of Ruzhin,
72

Italy,
40
,
183

Jabotinsky, Ze'ev,
28

Jacobson, Howard:
The Finkler Question
,
239
–
42
;
Seriously Funny
,
221

Jerusalem,
83
,
93
,
188
,
192
,
216
,
218
,
220

Jerusalem Betar,
199
–
200
,
203

Jessel, George,
123

Jesus Christ,
16
,
45
,
94
,
137
–
38

Jewish Enlightenment.
See
Haskalah

Jewish law,
31
,
43
,
98
,
135
,
137
,
141
,
188
,
234
–
35
,
257n3

Jewish mothers,
64
,
85
–
88
,
113
–
14
,
134
–
35
,
139
–
40
,
214
,
255
–
56n20

Jews: in Arab lands,
20
,
117
,
198
,
200
,
209
; collective identity of,
10
,
156
; as conditioned for disaster,
3
; distinctiveness of,
118
; egalitarianism among,
8
–
9
; as an “ever-dying people,”
228
; and; and modernity,
13
–
14
,
20
,
24
,
43
–
44
,
62
,
67
–
68
,
73
–
75
,
88
,
98
–
99
,
143
–
44
,
147
,
190
,
192
,
202
,
242
; as “the people of the joke,”
13
; rifts among,
24
,
49
,
69
–
70
; unity among,
49
–
50
,
62
,
65
,
203

Jews and Humor
(Greenspoon),
13

Job, Book of,
22
,
65
,
81

Johnson, Samuel,
80

Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
(Freud),
3

Jones, Ernest,
8

Joyce, James,
191

Judaism,
9
,
22
,
26
,
42
,
61
,
88
,
137
,
156
–
57
,
235
; conversion to,
108
,
131
,
257n3
; observant,
21
,
140
; rabbinic,
88
; Reform,
49

Jude
,
Der
,
53

Judenwitz
,
39
,
59

Julian the Apostate (Flavius Claudius Julianus),
105

Juvenal,
105

kaddish,
89
,
171

Kafka, Franz,
22
,
28
,
51
–
57
,
104
,
132
,
214
–
15
,
221
–
22
; ”
53
;
The Trial
,
221

Kahn, Gus,
129

Karbusicky, Vladimir,
222
–
27
,
242
;
Jewish Anecdotes from Prague
,
222
–
27

Karpinovitch, Avrom,
154
–
55

Kassow, Samuel,
154

Kaufman, George S.,
229

Kaye, Danny (David Daniel Kaminsky),
130
,
231
,
237
;
The Court Jester
,
231

Keret, Etgar,
217

Kerman, Danny,
182
,
218

KGB,
164
–
65

Kierkegaard, Søren Aabye,
117

Kiev,
62
,
64
,
87

King of the Schnorrers
(Zangwill),
107
–
13
,
251n3

Kishinev,
60

Kishon, Efraim,
197

kosher laws (kashruth),
31
,
88
,
135
,
141
,
156
,
234

kova tembel
,
196

Kraków,
20
,
221

Kramer vs. Kramer
,
203

Kraus, Karl,
50
,
91
,
265n10

Kulbak, Moshe,
93
,
97
,
167
–
72
,
176
;
Zelmenyaners
,
97
,
167
–
71

Kuni Leml in Tel Aviv
(Goldfaden),
75

lamed-vovniks
,
151

laughing at, vs. laughing with,
112
–
13
,
131
,
164

“Laughing Tiger,”
63

laughter,
64
,
112
,
152
,
172
,
175
,
180
–
81
,
185
,
198
,
211
–
13
,
219
,
227
,
231
; collective,
125
; humiliation channeled into,
10
; Jewish,
11
,
28
,
106
,
126
,
128
,
130
,
139
,
145
,
243
; God's,
184
; physical benefits of,
24
–
25
,
28
,
102
; and religious ecstasy,
75
; in response to joking,
1
–
6
,
9
,
31
,
33
,
82
–
83
,
103
,
120
,
155
,
176
,
218
–
20
; rueful,
16
; salvific properties of,
65
,
115
,
141
,
214
,
243
; Sarah's,
22
; and stand-up comedy,
129
,
234
; and tears,
63
,
90
,
125
,
128
–
29
,
155
; tolerating,
242
; and trembling,
115
; as universal,
14
,
20