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- Laugh A Little :)
Looking
back at our Jewish history… we’ve got to laugh. What else can we do? Laughter,
as you know, is triggered when the unexpected happens. And is there anything
more astonishing, unlikely, and improbable than Jewish survival? To quote Mark
Twain, “The Jew has made a marvelous fight in this world, in all the ages; and
has done it with his hands tied behind him.”
So we Jews laugh, and make others laugh and have done so for years. Hey, even
God practices his sense of humor when dealing with the Jews. Just consider this…
who did he send to “talk” the Egyptian Ruler into letting His people go, but the
speech impaired Moses?
One may argue, and perhaps justifiably, that over the years Jews needed laughter
and wit to brighten darkened days of oppression and persecution. However, here
is another plausible perspective. Perhaps it was the prejudice, bigotry, and the
restriction of physical and professional freedom, that left us Jews with no
choice but to take flight in words and refuge in the world of humor. Indeed, it
may have been those “hands tied behind [our backs]” that propelled us into this
world of laughter. A world where ruthlessness, stupidity, and muscle succumb to
the weak, defenseless, but clever. A place where wisdom and wit reign supreme.
In honor and deference to our old, beautiful, and funny tradition,
MazorGuide.com is bringing laughter and joy to you, our visitor. A compilation
of funny tales of yore and jokes galore, about Jewish leaders and Jewish mothers
(aren’t those two one and the same?); about affairs of state, and affairs of the
heart; about dating woes and pregnant glows.
So laugh a little… won’t you?
Read more about Jewish Humor and get
tickled by clicking below.
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Laugh A Little, Jewish
Humor in the Face of Reality - Part 1
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Laugh A Little, Jewish
Humor in the Face of Reality - Part 2
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Laugh A Little, Jewish
Humor in the Face of Reality - Part 3
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Laugh A Little, Jewish
Humor in the Face of Reality - Bibliography
Jokes, Jokes, Jokes: All in Good Spirit!!
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Dating Oys and Veys -
Classified Ads
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Jewish Clergy and
Jewish Rituals. Funny anecdotes
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Jewish Mothers, Jewish
Guilt, Jewish food
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Of Men and Money.
Humorous Tales
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Yinglish at its best!
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Jewish Movies - A
Parody
RECOMMENDED READING
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The HAUNTED SMILE: The Story of
Jewish Comedians in America
by: Lawrence
J. Epstein - From the Marx Brothers and
Allen Sherman to Joan Rivers and Jerry
Seinfeld.
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Big Book of Jewish Humor; William
Novak, Moshe Waldoks (Photographer)
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101 Classic Jewish Jokes : Jewish Humor
from Groucho Marx to Jerry Seinfeld;
Robert Menchin, Joe Kohl (Illustrator)
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Jewish Humor : What the Best Jewish
Jokes Say About the Jews; Joseph
Telushkin
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A Treasury of Jewish Humor; Nathan
Ausubel(Editor)
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A Treasury of Jewish Folklore : Stories,
Traditions, Legends, Humor, Wisdom and
Folk Songs of the Jewish People;
Nathan Ausubel (Editor)
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