Publications

Publication details [#36870]

Boyer, Jay. 1991. The schlemiezel: Black humor and the shtetl tradition. Humor 4 (2) : 165–175.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

absurdity | ethnicity | humor | racism

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0933-1719

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This study proposes to relate the Eastern European shtetl tradition of the fool -the schlemiel- as protagonist, to the comic victims in postwar American Black humor.