The nutty professor’s inner Gentile.

No joke.

Reflections on Jewish humor.

Surprisingly unfunny.

A new biography, reviewed.

A new history.

Will Bialik get the shoes back?

Talmud is full of jokes. But the rabbis were also wary of excessive mirth.

Doctors, writes Aaron Rothstein, have a penchant for dark humor, cracking jokes in the face of death, suffering, and disease. Rothstein turns to the history. . .

From innuendo in Genesis to grand irony in Jonah, humor forms an important and often overlooked element in the Hebrew Bible.

Whether due to public scorn or intense self-awareness, professional philosophers are catching up with Jews in the propensity for self-deprecation.

Jews have justly become identified with humor and wit, often at their own expense. But is it something of which to be proud—and how proud?. . .

“I applaud the intellectual courage of [Ruth Wisse's No Joke], the breadth of her learning, the comprehensiveness of her ambitions, her unembarrassed declarations of pleasure. . .