Are We Funny or What?
June 5, 2022
Submitted by Joe Dorinson Brooklyn produced a bumper crop of comic artists. Many of the nation’s premier humorists–Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks,
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Danny Kaye, A Mentsh for All Seasons
June 5, 2022
by Joe Dorinson “My father took me on his knee and said: ‘Kolya, my little gypsy. It is time you vent out into the verid
Joan Rivers: ‘Yente-In-Chief’
June 5, 2022
The ‘mouth that roared’ is silent, but in her life Rivers gave voice to outsiders and women. by Joseph Dorinson, published in The Jewish Week, Fri,
Sam Levenson
June 5, 2022
By Joe Dorinson “Today I am a fountain pen!” This mantra for Bar-Mitzvah boys in the 1940s, embedded in a mandatory speech thanking parents, relatives,
Kvetching and Shpritzing
June 5, 2022
Jewish Humor in American Popular Culture Joseph Dorinson Foreword by Joseph Boskin Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-9482-8Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4766-2056-5photos, notes, bibliography, indexsoftcover (6 x 9) 2015 Buy From
Fyvush Finkel – Will Always Be Remembered
June 5, 2022
BJHI celebrates the life of Fyvush Finkel. We are honored we could induct him into the Class of 2015 Brooklyn Jewish Hall of Fame. A
