Terms & Ideas

A Study Guide

Anti-Semitic humor

Are Jews funny? Why or why not?

Benefits of humor

Bigoted humor

Culturally specific humor

Elements of Jewish humor

Ethnic humor

Gallows humor

Hermetic humor

Humor as a teaching tool

Humor in the Hebrew Bible

Humor in the Talmud

Humorous imagery

Incongruity theory

In-group humor

In-group vs. Out-group humor

Irony

Jewish humor

Parody

Relief / release theory

Sarcasm

Satire

Self-deprecating humor

Social Justice Humor

Superiority theory

Target of humor

Theories of humor

Toxic humor

Trickster

Why study humor?

Why we laugh

Wordplay

Yiddish curses