{"id":30407,"date":"2014-02-12T11:58:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T19:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=30407"},"modified":"2014-02-12T13:08:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T21:08:34","slug":"when-jews-were-funny-alan-zweig-2013-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=30407","title":{"rendered":"When Jews Were Funny (Alan Zweig, 2013): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?author=3729\">Daniel Chein<\/a>. Viewed at SBIFF.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What makes a Jew funny?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The facial expressions<\/p>\n<p>the gestural hands<\/p>\n<p>the accent that defines how we all complain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The obnoxious, overwhelming mother<\/p>\n<p>the downtrodden, cynical father<\/p>\n<p>talking over and over and over each other.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Around the dinner table or<\/p>\n<p>on the way to synagogue<\/p>\n<p>arguing all the time to pass the time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>About everything and<\/p>\n<p>over nothing<\/p>\n<p>never a something too insignificant to bicker about.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Their comedy<\/p>\n<p>their experience<\/p>\n<p>in inseparable union like matzo ball and soup.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Latkes for Hannukah<\/p>\n<p>nothing for Yum Kippur<\/p>\n<p>traditions preserve their identity over generations and generations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Their struggle<\/p>\n<p>their survival<\/p>\n<p>their humor saved their lives amidst genocide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Where pessimism<\/p>\n<p>isn&#8217;t the same as being negative<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s finding something to joke about in any given situation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So to answer a question<\/p>\n<p>with another question<\/p>\n<p>Excuse me, but are you Jewish?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Daniel Chein. Viewed at SBIFF. &nbsp; What makes a Jew funny? &nbsp; The facial expressions the gestural hands the accent that defines how we all complain. &nbsp; The obnoxious, overwhelming mother the downtrodden, cynical father talking over and over and over each other. &nbsp; Around the dinner table or on the way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3729,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193,75,3,216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative","category-documentary","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}