Books about Jewish Humor

Aleichem, Sholom. Selected Stories of Sholom Aleichem. NY:Random House(Modern Library), 1956.

Cohen, Sarah B. Jewish Wry. Indiana University Press, 1987.

Berger, Arthur Asa. The Genius of the Jewish Joke. Jason Aronson, 1991.

Dauber, Jeremy. Jewish Comedy: A Serious History Kindle Edition. NY: W.W.Norton. 2018.

Davies, Christie. Jokes and Targets. Indiana University Press, 2011.

Friedman, Hershey H and Linda W Friedman. God Laughed: Sources of Jewish Humor. Transaction 2014.

Greenspoon, Leonard J. (ed.). Jews and Humor. Purdue University Press, 2011.

Herzog, Rudolph. Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler’s Germany. Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2011.

Kaplan, Louis. At Wit's End: The Deadly Discourse on the Jewish Joke. NY: Fordham University Press, 2020.

Lipman, Steve. Laughter in Hell: The use of humor during the Holocaust. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1991.

Mallow, Jeffrey V. "Our Pal God" and Other Presumptions. NY: iUniverse, 2005.

Novak, W. and M. Waldoks. Big Book of Jewish Humor. Collins, 2006.

Oring, Elliott. The First Book of Jewish Jokes: The Collectin of L.M. Buschenthal. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2018.

Ostrower, Chaya. It Kept Us Alive: Humor in the Holocaust. Jerusalem, Israel: Yad Vashem, 2014.

Raskin, Richard. Life is Like a Glass of Tea. New Orleans, LA: Quid Pro Books, 2015.

Shatz, Mark and Mel Helitzer (2016). Comedy Writing Secrets: The Best-Selling Guide to Writing Funny and Getting Paid for It 3rd edition. NY: Writer's Digest Books. (General humor)

Sover, Arie (ed.) The Languages of Humor: Verbal, Visual, and Physical Humor. NY: Bloomsbury, 2018.

Telushkin, Joseph. Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say about the Jews. Morrow, 1992.

Whedbee, J. William. The Bible and the Comic Vision. UK: Cambridge University Press, 198.

Weinreich, Beatrice Silverman (ed.). Yiddish Folktales. Translated by Leonard Wolf. NY: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, 1988.

Wisse, Ruth. No Joke: Making Jewish Humor. Princeton University Press, 2013.

Ziv, Avner (ed.). Jewish Humor. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1998.

Ziv, A. and A. Zajdman (eds.). Semites and Stereotypes: Characteristics of Jewish Humor. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993