Jeremy Dauber: Judaism Unbound Episode 301 - American Comics and Jewish Comedy
Jeremy Dauber, the author of American Comics: A History and Jewish Comedy: A Serious History, who serves as the Atran Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture at Columbia University, joins Dan and Lex for a conversation about these two books.
[1] Purchase American Comics: A History via this link, and purchase Jewish Comedy: A Serious History via this link! You can take a look at some of Dauber’s other books, and purchase them, by clicking here.
[2] Dauber references Will Eisner’s book A Contract with God. Learn more about it here.
[3] Dan and Lex mention a past conversation with Abraham Riesman, which also explored the Jewishness of American comics. Listen in by clicking here: Episode 262: Marvel’s Torah - Abraham Riesman.
[4] Dan alludes to a book called Understanding Comics, by Scott McCloud. For a previous Judaism Unbound conversation that explores it in more detail, see Episode 250: Cosmic Diaspora - Jake Marmer, and for the book itself, click here.
[5] Lex mentions a video of Jerry Seinfeld and Norm McDonald, which you can view here.
[6] Lex also gives a shout-out to Rachel Bloom, and her show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. For some of the show’s most well-known Jewish moments, see Remember that We Suffered, JAP Battle, and JAP Battle (Reprise).