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Telling?jokes 谈独特玩笑 Have?you?heard?the?one… 你有没有听过… Groucho?Marx?liked?a?good?one Groucho?Marx喜欢听精彩的 No?Joke:?Making?Jewish?Humour.By?Ruth?Wisse. 不许说笑：犹太式的玩笑 THIS?sharp?and?thoughtful?study?presents?a?reviewer?with?an?unusual?challenge:?which?jokedo?you?quote??One?cannot?tell?them?all,?both?because?space?forbids?it?and?because?some?ofthem?replicate,?in?order?to?mock?and?render?harmless,?noxious?Jewish?stereotypes. 尖锐而又内涵的研究将一个不寻常的挑战放在读者面前：这句玩笑你引自何处？人们通常说不出所有之乎者也来，一方面是篇幅限制，另一方面是很多玩笑是照葫芦画瓢的，用以嘲讽和带恶意的或没有恶意的犹太人的固有看法。 The?most?telling?joke?is?one?that?Ruth?Wisse,?professor?of?Yiddish?literature?at?Harvard,attributes?to?Immanuel?Olsvanger,?a?folklorist?who?was?born?in?Poland?in?1888?and?who?collectedYiddish?humour.?Here?it?is,?paraphrased.?When?you?tell?a?joke?to?a?peasant,?he?laughs?threetimes:?once?when?you?tell?it,?next?when?you?explain?it?to?him?and?finally?when?he?understands?it.The?landowner?laughs?twice:?once?when?you?tell?it?and?again?when?you?explain?it.?The?policemanlaughs?only?when?you?tell?it,?because?he?does?not?let?you?explain?it?and?so?never?understands.When?you?tell?a?Jew?a?joke?he?says, “Ive?heard?it?before.?And?I?can?tell?it?better.” 有个讲的最多的笑话是 哈佛希伯来语文学教授Ruth?Wisse属于Immanuel?Olsvanger?，后者是个搜集希伯来语笑话的民俗学家，于1888年出生于波兰。这里只是转述一下。跟农民讲笑话他会大笑三次，第一次是你给他讲的时候，第二次是你向他解释的时候，最后一次是当他终于听懂的时候。地主会笑两次：你讲的时候还有听你解释的时候。而警察只会在听你讲时候笑一笑，他不会让你解释所以他也不会听懂。但当你跟一个犹太人讲笑话时，他会跟你说“噢，这我以前就听过，我可以讲的更好”。 His?joke?hinges?not?just?on?Jews?fondness?for?humour,?but?also?on?Jewish?verbal?dexterity,competitiveness?and?anxiety?over?social?status.?But,?as?Ms?Wisse?explains,?the?Jewishreputation?for?humour?is?neither?universal?nor?ancient.?The?connection?began?with?theEnlightenment,?but?even?in?the?late?19th?century?Londons?chief?rabbi?felt?obliged?to?defendJews?against?charges?of?humourlessness.?Jews?in?Arab?countries?do?not?seem?to?have?had?thelaughing?gene,?but?in?the?Yiddish-speaking?world—and?in?America?and?Israel,?where?many,?if?notmost,?Jews?descend?from?Yiddish?speakers—the?connection?between