Jewish Humor
The Jewish humor is the humor of the Jews in the world and about themselves. Dating back to the Torah , the Talmud and Midrash , .
This comedy, based on self-deprecating jokes and is often steeped in the stereotypes of Jews on themselves or others over them. Thus, some Jewish jokes they superficially resemble number of "Jewish jokes" told by non-Jews, who are often really just anti-Semitic .
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- The religion is a source classical interpretation of the rules of Shabbat , the views of Rabbi , incidents at the synagogue , relations with other religions, subjects abound.
- The Jewish mother , described as unfair and convinced that her son is the best, is a classic, which moreover resulted in a piece called How to become a Jewish mother in 10 lessons, Paul Fuks, according to Dan Greenburg.
- The money and trade - hackneyed themes of anti-Semitic jokes - are also found in Jewish humor (among those mentioned by Joseph Klatzmann in Jewish humor, this simple sentence of bitter irony: " God loves the poor and helps the rich ").
- The anti-Semitism itself is a source of jokes.
- So this story: after the assassination of Tsar Nicolas II in Russia , a government representative in Ukraine threatens a rabbi: "I guess you know who is behind this. "Ach," replies the rabbi, I do not know, but anyway the government will conclude as usual this will be the fault of the Jews and the chimney sweeps. Astonished, the man the government asks, "Why the sweeps? "The rabbi replied:" Why the Jews? "
- Another example, in Germany at the beginning of Nazism: a Jew meet in a coffee another Jew, a friend who plays the anti-Semitic newspaper Der Strmer. "But how, you read that horror? "Of course! When I read the Jewish press, there is bad news, persecution, anti-Semitism everywhere ... While in this paper it is written that we are the masters of the world and control everything, is when even more comforting! "
- One of the best known probably why the violin he is the favorite tool of Jewish musicians? Because it is easier to carry than a piano when pogrom.
United States
For the U.S. , its most famous representative for the French is Woody Allen , the latter having become for them the image of Jewish humor from New York. Earlier in the history of cinema, the Marx Brothers are brilliantly past scenes from Broadway to the big screen. Also include Jerry Lewis , Jim Abrahams and Jerry Seinfeld. And if Jewish inspiration of Charlie Chaplin is controversial, the barber's Dictator is explicitly derived from the Jewish world subjected to Nazi persecution.
Many great writers like Saul Bellow and Isaac Bashevis Singer , illustrated the Jewish humor in American literature.
France
French literature is rich with Jewish writers known for their humor, and yet these, of Andre Maurois to Rene Goscinny through Georges Perec and Jacques Lanzmann , a humor not practice community, the themes do not refer to their origins. When Marcel Proust surrenders to devastating wit (the portrait of the clan Verdurin Prigot Joseph's character or a parody of the Journal des Goncourt brothers in In Search of Lost Time , or his collection Pastiches and mixtures ), it does never addresses issues specifically Jews.
The only author who does not follow this rule, perhaps, is Tristan Bernard. During the Occupation , to the persecution that threat, it has the phrase "chosen people, chosen people? You mean waivers ? "
For his part, Pierre Dac , a leading figure of Radio London during the Occupation, is humor in the service of resistance and patriotism , and, when referring to the fact that he is Jewish, is to taunt the "collaborators" in the name of his brother, who died in battle during the Great War .
Today, the Jewish humor on stage is represented by actors as Popeck , and some of their skits by Michel Boujenah , Elijah Semoun , Elie Kakou , Gad Elmaleh and others. The epitome of the Jewish mother in several films and plays is the actress Marthe Villalonga.
In film, examples of Jewish humor are in France, Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob ( 1973 ), Levy and Goliath ( 1987 ), both of Gerard Oury , and around the Parisian neighborhood of the trail and Sephardim , The Truth Would I Lie! ( 1997 ) and its sequel ( 2001 ). Rashevski Tango ( 2003 ) presents a humorous questions concerning the conversion to Judaism.
Albums of the comic book The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar , located in Algeria in the 1930s , marked a revival of Jewish humor.
The designer Olivier Ranson , cartoonist news (Le Parisien), mania as readily Jewish humor, magazines or comic books as The Truth, my mother. The Adventures of Supfermann where he staged a variant of Superman Ashkenazi.
United Kingdom
The King of Schnorrers, a novel by Israel Zangwill appeared in 1894, is a classic Jewish humor that features a comic confrontation philanthropist Ashkenazi and a beggar (a "schnorrer) Sephardic as miserable as talker, a hero who inspired both characters Singer Mangeclous that of Albert Cohen.
In the USSR
Soviet literature had many authors of "Jewish nationality" that some have written masterpieces humorstico-satirical. For example, The Twelve chairs of Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov.
In Poland
The szmonces dsignrent during the nineteenth century in Poland , a joke, skit, a short story, based on both Jewish humor and the special language of the Ashkenazi community based on a Polish loan words speak Yiddish. The szmonces met a real success in a number of cabarets in Austria-Hungary and especially in Poland before the Second World War. The Szmonce is a Yiddish term meaning "smile" and designating a joke or nonsense in Central Europe, particularly Poland.
Some Polish authors were the basis of the record and mocking humor based on wordplay, such as Julian Tuwim or Tom Konrad.
In Israel
The duo composed by Shimen Dzigan (in) and Yisrael Szumacher (en) has given numerous performances in Yiddish worldwide, shot in a movie (Our Children, 1951 ), and recorded several albums of sketches after the war Freud and Jewish humor In his book Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, Freud studied humor in general, but it analyzes a Jewish twenty stories (see their quotes in the Que sais-je? Joseph Klatzmann). See also
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