No Joke (39 page)

tragicomedy,
9
,
15
,
58
,
238

tricksters,
20
,
77
–
80
,
98

Trotsky, Leon,
149
,
156
–
57
,
162
–
63

Tucholsky, Kurt,
242

tukhes,
145

tummlers,
122
,
147

“Two Anti-Semites” (Sholem Aleichem),
59
–
62
,
74
,
90

Tzeciak, Stanislaw,
145

understanding jokes,
3
–
4
,
9
,
14
,
26
,
67
,
125
,
149
,
218
,
243

Uris, Leon:
Exodus
,
117

vaudeville,
120
,
231

Velvet Revolution,
225

verbal wit,
39
,
77
,
80
,
86
,
230
–
31
Vienna,
8
,
10
–
11
,
30
–
32
,
53
,
96
,
145
,
238

Vilna,
69
,
93
,
153
,
159
,
167
–
68

Vilozhny, Shmuel,
212
–
16
;
Abaleh, kah oti l'luna park
(Daddy, take me to the fair),
212
–
15

visual humor,
82
,
140
,
162
,
230

Voltaire,
70

von Platen, August,
41
,
46
–
49
,
137
;
The Romantic Oedipus
,
47

vulgarity,
79
,
141
,
233
–
34
.
See also
profanity
;
sexual humor

Wagenstein, Angel,
238

Wandering Ahasuerus,
16

War of Independence,
204
–
5

Warsaw,
17
,
92
–
94
,
143
–
44
,
146
,
152
–
55
,
225

Warsaw Ghetto,
17
,
152
,
154
,
242

Warshawski, Mark,
62
; “Afn Pripetchik,”
61
–
62

Weg ins Freie, Der
(Schnitzler),
8
–
10
,
35

Weinreich, Max,
88
,
150

“Who's on First?” (Abbott and Costello),
192

Wodehouse, P. G.,
111

women's humor,
85
–
88

wordplay,
16
,
32
,
45
,
152
,
187
,
214
,
229
,
263n5
.
See also
punning

World War I,
58
,
65
,
97
,
113
,
124
,
161

World War II,
92
,
118
,
148
–
49
,
183
,
222
,
226
–
27

Yad Vashem,
215

yehudi beloy
(Jew, beware),
150

Yekhi'el Mikhl of Zlotshev,
72

yeridah
(emigration from Israel),
184

yeshivas,
68
,
80
,
82
,
167
,
234
–
35

Yiddish cursing,
64
,
85
–
86
.
See also
curses

Yiddish Enlightenment.
See
Haskalah

Yiddish humor,
3
,
16
,
26
,
58
–
103
,
185
–
87
,
195
,
206
,
217
,
229
,
231
–
33
,
237

Yiddish humor magazines,
14
,
57
,
96

Yiddish language,
67
,
88
,
157
–
58
,
137
,
214
,
232
–
33
: dialects of,
69
–
70
,
144
,
152
–
53
; disintegration of,
67
,
233
; expressions in,
16
–
17
,
21
,
27
,
34
,
50
,
62
,
85
,
96
,
122
,
156
,
162
,
184
,
208
; vs. Hebrew,
16
–
17
,
68
–
69
,
150
,
158
,
185
,
215
; hybridity of,
16
,
99
; as inherently funny,
5
,
103
,
121
,
132
; in Israel,
198
; jokes in,
26
,
59
,
79
,
83
,
126
,
159
,
163
,
231
–
32
.
See also
accents
;
proverbs
;
Yiddish cursing

Yiddish literature,
12
,
17
,
57
–
103
,
124
,
156
,
158
,
167
–
72
,
190
,
234

Yiddish theater,
51
,
73
,
86
,
125
–
26
,
144
–
47
,
230
,
254n6

Yinglish,
103
,
121
,
125

Yom Kippur,
8
,
77
,
84
,
151
,
155
,
190
,
205

Yom Kippur War,
205
,
211

yortsayt
,
103

Youngman, Henny (Henry Junggman),
104
,
139

Your Show of Shows
,
130

Zangwill, Israel,
106
–
13
,
118
–
21
;
King of the Schnorrers
,
107
–
13
,
251n3
;
The Melting Pot
,
113

Zerrissenheit,
39
,
45

Zionism,
26
,
28
,
30
–
31
,
53
,
65
,
67
,
107
,
135
,
137
,
156
,
166
,
183
,
186
–
92
,
204
,
219
–
20
; labor,
253n29
; Revisionist,
199
; vilification of,
240