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Adath Jeshurun- Shabbat Scholar

December 16, 2023 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Adath Jeshurun- Shabbat Scholar

Join us as we welcome Jeremy Dauber

Talk Title: “Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew”

Jeremy Dauber, Columbia University professor and author, will speak about his book “Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew,” part of the prizewinning Yale University Press Jewish Lives series of biographies.

A spirited dive into the life and career of a performer, writer, and director who dominated twentieth-century American comedy

Mel Brooks, born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn in 1926, is one of the great comic voices of the twentieth century. Having won almost every entertainment award there is, Brooks has straddled the line between outsider and insider, obedient and rebellious, throughout his career, making out-of-bounds comedy the American mainstream.

Jeremy Dauber argues that throughout Brooks’s extensive body of work—from Your Show of Shows to Blazing Saddles to Young Frankenstein to Spaceballs—the comedian has seen the most success when he found a balance between his unflagging, subversive, manic energy and the constraints imposed by comedic partners, the Hollywood system, and American cultural mores. Dauber also explores how Brooks’s American Jewish humor went from being solely for niche audiences to an essential part of the American mainstream, paving the way for generations of Jewish (and other) comedians to come.

This event will be held at Adath Jeshurun, 2401 Woodbourne Avenue, 40205
For more information: 502-458-5359 or www.adathjeshurun.com.

Details

Date:
December 16, 2023
Time:
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
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Organizer

Cantor David Lipp
Phone:
502-458-5359
Email:
dlipp@adathjeshurun.com