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Kvetching and Shpritzing

Jewish Humor in American Popular Culture

By: Joseph Dorinson

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Kvetching and Shpritzing

Jewish Humor in American Popular Culture

By: Joseph Dorinson

Jewish humor, with its rational skepticism and cutting social criticism, permeates American popular culture. Scholars of humor--from Sigmund Freud to Woody Allen--have studied the essence of the Jewish joke, at once a defense mechanism against a hostile world and a means of cultural affirmation. Where did this wit originate? Why do Jewish humorists work at the margins of so many diverse cultures? What accounts for the longevity of the Jewish joke? Do oppressed people, as African American author Ralph Ellison suggested, slip their yoke when they change the joke? Citing examples from prominent humorists and stand-up comics, this book examines the phenomenon of Jewish humor from its biblical origins to its prevalence in the modern diaspora, revealing a mother lode of wit in language, literature, folklore, music and history.

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McFarland

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0786494824

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9780786494828

The Black Athlete as Hero

American Barrier Breakers from Nine Sports

By: Joseph Dorinson

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The Black Athlete as Hero

American Barrier Breakers from Nine Sports

By: Joseph Dorinson

Part history, part biography, this study examines the Black athlete's search to unify what W.E.B. DuBois called the "two unreconciled strivings" of African Americans--the struggle to survive in black society while adapting to white society. Black athletes have served as vanguards of change, challenging the dominant culture, crossing social boundaries and raising political awareness. Champions like Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, Wilma Rudolph, Roberto Clemente, Althea Gibson, Arthur Ashe, Serena Williams, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and LeBron James make a difference, even as many in the Black community question the idea of athletes as role models. The author argues the importance of sports heroes in a panic-plagued era beset with class division and racial privilege.

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McFarland

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1476678863

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9781476678863

Jackie Robinson

Race, Sports and the American Dream

By: Joseph Dorinson,Joram Warmund

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Jackie Robinson

Race, Sports and the American Dream

By: Joseph Dorinson,Joram Warmund

With these words, President Clinton contributed to Long Island University's three-day celebration of that momentous event in American history when Robinson became the first African American to play major league baseball. This new book includes presentations from that celebration, especially chosen for their fresh perspectives and illuminating insights. A heady mix of journalism, scholarship, and memory offers a presentation that far transcends the retelling of just another sports story. Readers get a true sense of the social conditions prior to Robinson's arrival in the major leagues and the ripple effect his breakthrough had on the nation. Anecdotes enliven the story and offer more than the usual "larger than life" portrait of Robinson. A melange of contributors from the sports world, academia, and journalism, some of Robinson's contemporaries, Dodger fans, and historians of the era, all sharing a passion for baseball, reflect on issues of sports, race, and the dramatic transformation of the American social and political scene in the last fifty years. In addition to the editors, the list of authors includes Peter Golenbock, one of America's preeminent sports biographers and author of Bums: The Brooklyn Dodgers, 1947-1957, Tom Hawkins, the first African-American to star in basketball at Notre Dame and currently Vice-President for Communications of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Bill Mardo a former writer for the New York Daily Worker, Roger Rosenblatt, teacher at the Southampton Campus of Long Island University, and author of numerous articles, plays, and books, Peter Williams, author of a study of sports myth, The Sports Immortals, and Samuel Regalado, author of Viva Baseball!: LatinMajor Leaguers and Their Special Hunger.

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295

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Routledge

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1317467248

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Corporal Boskin's Cold Cold War

A Comical Journey

By: Joseph Boskin

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Corporal Boskin's Cold Cold War

A Comical Journey

By: Joseph Boskin

At the height of the Korean War in 1952, a budding young historian was drafted into the U.S. Army just as the Pentagon was organizing a top-secret, scientific expeditionary unit, the Transportation Arctic Group (TRARG). Consisting of 275 military members and a cluster of civilian scientists from the United States and other countries, TRARG was sent to Thule Air Force Base, located on the west coast of northern Greenland. Its ostensible purpose was to map the terrain and test complex equipment at the edges of the Ice Cap. The covert objective, however, was to determine the feasibility of constructing yet another air base on the other side of Greenland, one that would be much closer to the enemy. As the sole historian of the unit, Corporal Boskin was responsible for compiling and transmitting weekly progress reports to the Pentagon and, at the conclusion of the mission, for assisting in the final assessment. The multivolume report was itself technically worthy, yet it possessed barely a hint of the personal story: the outsized characters, the dark comedy and real tragedy, the frustrations and waste, and the ongoing tug’of’war between the company commander and his corporal historian over the status of the report’s basic contents. Here Boskin tells that story, a keenly observed narrative that delivers both the absurd and the sublime in equal measure.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815650507

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9780815650508

Jackie Robinson

Race, Sports and the American Dream

By: Joseph Dorinson,Joram Warmund

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Race, Sports and the American Dream

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Routledge

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131746723X

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Kvetching and Shpritzing

Jewish Humor in American Popular Culture

By: Joseph Dorinson

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1476620563

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The Black Athlete as Hero

American Barrier Breakers from Nine Sports

By: Joseph Dorinson

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American Barrier Breakers from Nine Sports

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The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith

By: Joseph Smith (Jr.)

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The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith

By: Joseph Smith (Jr.)

What would it have been like to know the Prophet Joseph Smith? Countless Church members have asked themselves that question. Though books written about the Prophet may shed light on his character and personality, nowhere do we find a clearer picture of him than in his own writings.This volume, now updated and revised, collects the personal writings of Joseph Smith - those written in his own hand or dictated to a scribe - and includes photographs of the original documents. His journal entries, letters and other documents reveal the true character of the Prophet: his humility, his unwavering loyalty to his family and friends, his love of life, his commitment to the Church, and his deep spiritualty and desire to do the will of the Savior, whose servant he was. Readers will share Joseph's joys and sorrows, understand the price he paid for truth, and realize that here, indeed, was a prophet of God.

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1606414992

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The Prophet Joseph Smith's Views on the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States

To Which Is Appended the Correspondence Between the Prophet Joseph Smith and the Hons. J. C. Calhoun and Henry Clay, Candidates for the Presidency of the Uni

By: Joseph Smith,Henry Clay,John C. Calhoun

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The Prophet Joseph Smith's Views on the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States

To Which Is Appended the Correspondence Between the Prophet Joseph Smith and the Hons. J. C. Calhoun and Henry Clay, Candidates for the Presidency of the Uni

By: Joseph Smith,Henry Clay,John C. Calhoun

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Andesite Press

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1375944304

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Kvetching and Shpritzing

Kvetching and Shpritzing

The Black Athlete as Hero

The Black Athlete as Hero

Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson

Corporal Boskin's Cold Cold War

Corporal Boskin's Cold Cold War

Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson

Kvetching and Shpritzing

Kvetching and Shpritzing

The Black Athlete as Hero

The Black Athlete as Hero

The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith

The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith

The Prophet Joseph Smith's Views on the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States

The Prophet Joseph Smith's Views on the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States

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