{"id":161454,"date":"2025-05-31T23:11:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T07:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=161454"},"modified":"2025-05-31T17:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T01:14:52","slug":"no-joke-making-jewish-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=161454","title":{"rendered":"No Joke: Making Jewish Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ruth Wisse writes in her 2014 book<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* The young man was most disagreeably surprised when the proposed bride was introduced to him, and drew aside the shadkhen \u2014 the marriage broker \u2014 to whisper his objections: \u201cWhy have you brought me here?\u201d he asked reproachfully. \u201cShe\u2019s ugly and old, she squints, and has bad teeth \u2026\u201d \u201cYou needn\u2019t lower your voice,\u201d interrupted the broker, \u201cshe\u2019s deaf as well.\u201d
\n Two Jews meet in a railway carriage at a station in Galicia. \u201cWhere are you going?\u201d asks one. \u201cTo Cracow,\u201d replied the other. \u201cWhat a liar you are!\u201d objects the first. \u201cIf you say you\u2019re going to Cracow, you want me to believe you\u2019re going to Lemberg. But I know that in fact you\u2019re going to Cracow. So why are you lying to me?\u201d
\n A schnorrer, who was allowed as a guest into the same house every Sabbath, appeared one day in the company of an unknown young man who was about to sit down at the table. \u201cWho is this?\u201d asked the householder. \u201cHe\u2019s my new son – in – law,\u201d the schnorrer replied. \u201cI\u2019ve promised him his board for the first year.\u201d<\/p>\n

* Freud put up with anti – Semitism in much the same way that he accepted civilization with its discontents (to paraphrase the title of one of his most famous works). 6 He therefore welcomed joking as a compensatory pleasure \u2014 the expressive venting of people who lived under the double weight of their own disciplining heritage and the collective responsibility to behave well among the nations. Herzl, in contrast, wanted to alleviate anti – Semitism for the betterment of Europe as well as the Jews.
\n…At issue here is the degree to which the two men\u2019s approval of Jewish wit was proportional to their respective plans, if any, for Jewish rescue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ruth Wisse writes in her 2014 book: * The young man was most disagreeably surprised when the proposed bride was introduced to him, and drew aside the shadkhen \u2014 the marriage broker \u2014 to whisper his objections: \u201cWhy have you … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29695,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t