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The Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies is proud to have Jennifer Caplan present “Funny, You Don’t Look Funny: Jews, Comedy, and Gender” as part of the ongoing Faye Greenberg Sigman “Woman of Valor” Lecture series on Wednesday, March 18, at 7 p.m. at the Golda Meir Library, 4th floor conference center. The event also has a virtual option.<\/p>\n

This talk examines trends in the way Jewish institutions have typically \u201ccounted\u201d Jewish engagement in the late 20th and 21st centuries and uses those trends to argue that American Judaism looks healthier and more robust if we think differently about engagement. Humor, it turns out, is not only a valid way to approach this revisioning, but also one of the best ways to highlight positive trends in American Jewish identification. Rather than relying on older \u201ccontinuity-based\u201d models of what Judaism needs to do to survive that put disproportionate pressure (and blame) on Jewish women, a contemporary Jewish humor reimagines many aspects of Jewish life \u2014 including Jewish gender tropes \u2014 and offers younger generations a vision of Jewishness they want to embrace.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Caplan is The Jewish Foundation Chair of Cincinnati Chair in Judaic Studies at University of Cincinnati. She is the author of “Funny, You Don\u2019t Look Funny: Judaism and Comedy from the Silent Generation to Millennials” (2023) and co-editor of “Wit Happens: Global Jewish Humor”(2026). She publishes broadly on Judaism and popular culture with a focus on gender and representation and is currently working on “Unmasked: Jewish Characters in DC and Marvel.”<\/p>\n

To attend virtually, register on this webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The lecture is made by possible by the Taxman and Temkin families, and is co-sponsored by UWM\u2019s Departments of English and Women\u2019s and Gender Studies.<\/p>\n

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