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Exhibition image for Jewface, Yiddish Dialect Songs of Tin Pan Alley, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research - detail from larger image

Jewface: Comic Songs, Vaudeville Stereotypes

June 14, 2016 by William Eaton

Mock Yiddish and Ethnic Parody in the Vaudeville Melting-Pot     While weary critiques of Blackface, Yellowface and Redface have become almost a Halloween tradition in their own right, “Jewface” in popular music has largely been forgotten.[1]). However, this past spring, the Center for Jewish History in New York City hosted an exhibit by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research: “Jewface: ‘Yiddish’ Dialect Songs of Tin Pan Alley.” I quote from the exhibition’s website: With his fake beard, putty nose, […]

Categories: ZiLL • Tags: comedy, Irving Berlin, Jews, popular music, stereotypes, vaudeville

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Theodor Herzl (retouched)

Theodor Herzl: Comedy and Politics Mix

November 5, 2015 by William Eaton

Comic Figures in Theodor Herzl’s Zionist Literary Writing By Alex Marshall   Known first and foremost as the founder of the Zionist movement, Theodor Herzl (1860–1904) was also author of the pamphlet The Jewish State and, subsequently, a national hero in Israel. However, before his Zionism, he was a well-known literary figure in Vienna. Herzl is generally seen as a serious-minded writer and political leader, whose jokes were limited to either stage comedies with no bearing on Jewish politics, or […]

Categories: Article • Tags: comedy, fiction, Jews, theater, Theodor Herzl, Vienna, Zionism

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Playwriting: Churchill “Cloud Nine”

October 6, 2015 by William Eaton

Martin (to his wife): So I lost my erection last night not because I’m not prepared to talk, it’s just that taking in technical information is a different part of the brain and also I don’t like to feel that you do it better to yourself. I have read the Hite report. I do know that women have to learn to get their pleasure despite our clumsy attempts at expressing undying devotion and ecstasy, and that what we spent our […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiLL • Tags: comedy, playwriting, sexuality, theater, writing

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George Bush as The Joker, caricature

The Chosen Comedians

September 9, 2013 by Daniel Taub

The Chosen Comedians Jewish Joking from Nineteenth Century Europe to Twenty-First Century Israel   By Daniel Taub A review of No Joke: Making Jewish Humor by Ruth R. Wisse (Princeton University Press, 2013) Image—also entitled “No Joke”—is from Drew Friedman, the author of The Fun Never Stops, Old Jewish Comedians, and More Old Jewish Comedians. The sketch, or “visual comment” appeared in Vanity Fair’s “VF Daily sketchbook” on July 29, 2008. [click for pdf]   Have you heard the one about the […]

Categories: Review • Tags: Auschwitz, comedy, George W. Bush, Holocaust, humor, Israel, Jews

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Zeteo is for people who are readers, lookers, listeners, thinkers. Increasingly we are interested in short texts that call attention to other texts, works of art or music that deserve more attention than they are getting. And we are interested similarly in historical phenomena, ignored aspects of contemporary life, . . . We look forward to hearing about your ideas, your reading, what you’ve seen . . .

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