Jewface, Secret Handshakes, and Everything in Between: Performing Jews Performing Jewish
Capp Center St. Paul 1375 St. Paul Ave, St. Paul, MN, United StatesCenter for Jewish Studies presents: Jews in America have routinely, even reflexively, turned to humor in navigating their identity. This talk explores how Jewish comedians have done so on stage, screen, and in print, publicly enacting but also modeling—for Jewish and non-Jewish audiences—the varying strategies Jews have turned to in figuring out how to be […]