All Activities Take Place at the Creighton Skutt Student Center Ballroom

Monday, October 26, 2009 8:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

All activities take place at the Creighton Skutt Student Center Ballroom The Twenty-Second Annual Visitor parking is available at the Lied Center - 24th and Cass Street Klutznick-Harris Symposium

8:30 – 9:55 Session IV “Jews and Humor” 8:30 – 9:10 Charles David Isbell October 25 and 26, 2009 “Humor in the Bible”

9:15 – 9:55 David Peterson and Joan Latchaw, University of Co-hosts Nebraska, Omaha “Jewish Humor, Comedy, and Collaborative The Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization Resistance in Mel Brooks’ ‘To Be or Not To Be” Creighton University

9:55 – 10:05 Break The Norman & Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies University of Nebraska – Lincoln 10:05 – 11:30 Session V With 10:05 – 10:45 Jason Kalman, Hebrew Union College “Heckling the Divine: Woody Allen, the Book of The Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society Job, and Jewish Theology” Creighton University The Jewish Federation of Omaha 10:50 – 11:30 David Gillota, University of Wisconsin, Platteville “The New Jewish Blackface: African American Generous support is also provided by: Tropes in Contemporary Jewish Humor” The Ike and Roz Friedman Foundation 11:30-1:00 Lunch and Keynote The Riekes Family Welcome Remarks: Robert Leugers, Dean, The Creighton College of Arts and Sciences College of Arts & Sciences, Creighton University The Gary Javitch Family Foundation The Center for Jewish Education 11:30 – 12:15 Lunch The Henry Monsky Lodge of B’nai B’rith The Dr. Bruce S. Bloom Memorial Endowment 12:20 – 1:00 Giovanna Del Negro, Texas A&M University And Others “‘The Bad Girls of Jewish Comedy: Gender, Class, Assimilation, and Whiteness in Post WWII America” 4:20 – 5:00 Michael Rubinoff, Arizona State University “Nuances and Subtleties in Jewish Film Humor” Sunday, October 25, 2009 10:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Sunday, October 25, 2009 7:30 p.m. – 8:45 p.m.

All activities take place at the Omaha Jewish Community Center 333 South 132nd Street Omaha Jewish Community Center 333 South 132nd Street Theatre 10:30 – 11:55 Session I

10:30 – 11:10 Theodore Albrecht, Kent State University 7:30 – 8:45 Keynote Presentation “‘They Ain’t Makin’ Jews like Jesus Anymore’: The Musical Humor of Kinky Friedman and His Welcome Remarks: Texas Jewboys in Historical and Geographical Perspective” Fr. John F. Schlegel, President, Creighton University Steve Riekes, The Jewish Federation of Omaha 11:15 – 11:55 Joanna Sliwa, Clark University Leonard J. Greenspoon, Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization “The Creation of Polish Public Perception of Jews Through Jewish Humor”

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:05 – 3:25 Session II Speaker:

1:05 – 1:45 David Brodsky, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College Joyce Antler “Why Did the Widow Have a Goat in Her Bed?” Madrash and the Making o Jewish Humor” Samuel Lane Professor of American 1:50 – 2:30 Eliezer Diamond, Jewish Theological Seminary Jewish History and Culture “You Had to Be There: A Preliminary Taxonom of Brandeis University Narrative Humor in Rabbinic Literature” 2:35 – 3:15 Peter Haas, Case Western Reserve University “Massechet Purim” “One Clove Away From a Pomander Ball”: 3:15 – 3:30 Break The Subversive Tradition of Jewish Female Humor

3:35 – 5:00 Session III All events are free and open to the public 3:35 – 4:15 Leonard Helfgott, Western Washington University “Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Karl: Immigrant Humor and the Depression” For further information, please contact Fran Minear, Klutznick Chair office (402) 280-2303 or [email protected]

Also, visit our web site: www.creighton.edu/ccas/klutznick