Josh Lambert

How observant Jewish funnymen (and -women) navigate the line between irreverence and devotion

The original ‘bad Jewish boy’ has died at 77

The intimate, obscene, lovable, fearless stand-up of ‘We Are Miracles’ shows the comedian at her sweet, shameless best

This award proves, once and for all, that Roth isn’t too obscene. Nor is he too American, or too male, or too Jewish.

Lower East Side story

The bard of Newark’s take on sex, Jewish mothers, and how to prepare liver

A thorough new biography chronicles the rise and fall of the big, Jewish self-destructive funnyman

He’s one of the most inventive stand-up comedians around. So, why does he sound like a throwback?

Israeli Asaf Hanuka crashes the party in Paris, as the comic-strip-obsessed city hosts Spiegelman and Crumb

To understand what comedy today reveals about Jews, look at the jokes gentile comedians tell about us

Once an institutionalized mental patient, the comic Moshe Kasher unleashes his psychological self-abuse in the new memoir Kasher in the Rye

Five Books: Jews in film, Jews and booze, the poisonous sound of children’s voices in Ben Marcus’ novel, Tony Judt’s last conversations, and more

Five Books, holiday edition: Nine hardbacks—including Philip Schultz’s memoir, a history of the orgasm, and Alfred Kazin’s journals—for the readers on your list

Five Books: A biography of sportscaster Howard Cosell, the life of film critic Pauline Kael, the poets who translated Shakespeare into Hebrew, and more

Henry Miller had complicated feelings about Jews, but his works wouldn’t have reached American audiences without them