Status
O
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Jewish Humor
Term
2021A
Syllabus URL
Subject area
NELC
Section number only
401
Section ID
NELC254401
Course number integer
254
Registration notes
Course Online: Synchronous Format
Meeting times
TR 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Dan Ben-Amos
Description
In modern American popular culture Jewish humor is considered by Jews and non-Jews as a recognizable and distinct form of humor. Focusing upon folk-humor, in this course we will examine the history of this perception, and study different manifestation of Jewish humor as a particular case study of ethnic in general. Specific topics for analysis will be: humor in the Hebrew Bible, Jewish humor in Europe and in America, JAP and JAM jokes, Jewish tricksters and pranksters, Jewish humor in the Holocaust and Jewish humor in Israel. The term paper will be collecting project of Jewish jokes.
Course number only
254
Cross listings
FOLK296401, COML259401, JWST102401
Fulfills
Arts & Letters Sector
Use local description
No