The Genius of the Jewish Joke focuses on what is distinctive and unusual about Jewish jokes and Jewish humor

1: How Is This Book about Jewish Humor Different from All Other Books about Jewish Humor?; 2: How Odd of God to Choose the Jews; 3: On the Techniques of Jewish Jokes; 4: Schlemiels, Schlimazels, and Other Jewish Fools and Comic Types (Old World and New World); 5: Jokes about Jews and Ethnic and Racial Minorities; 6: On the Question of Masochism and Other Aspects of Jewish Humor