Jews and Comedy in America with Eddy Portnoy

Jewish comedians, such as Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers, Gilbert Gottfried, have always broke norms and challenged taboos of American culture. 

We talk to Eddy Portney of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research - historian and curator of the course: Is Anything Okay? The History of Jews and Comedy in America.

We dive into the roots of Jewish humor from the Borscht Belt to modern times.

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