Tanny, Jarrod M

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Professor, History , College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts

I am Professor of History and the Charles and Hannah Block Distinguished Scholar in Jewish History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Tanny, Jarrod M

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tannyj@uncw.edu

910.962.7580

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Academic Article
- How Did Anti-Zionism Become the New Antisemitism?. Jewish Journal. 2026-01-01
- "I Didn’t Know There Were Epsteins in Puerto Rico": Jewish Ethnicity in American Comedy. An Annual Review of the Casden Institute for the Study of American Life Annual Review: Beyond Whiteness: Revisiting Jews in Ethnic America. 21. 2023-12-01
- The Gonef’s Wedding. JewTh!nk. 2021-01-01
- A Pickler on the Roof.” Review of Seth Rogen’s An American Pickle. JewTh!nk. 2020-01-01
- Curb Your Orgasm: Larry David and the Schlimazel as Sexual Deviant. Jewish Film & New Media: An International Journal. 7. 2020-01-01
- In My Country There Is Problem. Jewish Review of Books. 2019-01-01
- A Bad, Bold, Big-Nosed, Biblical Brother: Refashioning the Funny Jew in Post-World War Two America. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. 16. 2017-01-01
- Alexander Z. Gurwitz, A Yiddish Life in Russia and Texas. Southern Jewish History. 20. 2017-01-01
- Decoding Seinfeld’s Jewishness. Studies in Contemporary Jewry. 29. 2016-01-01
- On Kanter’s Lunch: Old Jews Slurping Soup and the Fate of Jewish Humor. Jewish Film & New Media: An International Journal. 201-206. 2016-01-01
- The Anti-Gospel of Lenny, Larry, and Sarah: Jewish Humor and the Desecration of Christendom. American Jewish History. 29. 2015-01-01
- “Mit Odessy, żydowskiego miasta grzechu,”. Midrasz. 4. 2014-01-01
- Between the Borscht Belt and the Bible Belt: Crafting Southern Jewishness through Chutzpah and Humor. Southern Jewish History. 15:119-167. 2012-11-01
- Kvetching and Carousing under Communism: Old Odessa as the Soviet Union’s Jewish City of Sin. East European Jewish Affairs/Routledge. 39:315-346. 2009-12-01
Book
- Wit Happens: Global Jewish Humor. Wayne State University Press. 2026-02-01
- Tales of a Yid in Dixieland: Bible Jokes, Southern Folks, and the Woke Who Shame the Jews. . 2025-08-01
- The Seinfeld Talmud: A Jewish Guide to a Show About Nothing. Academica Press. 2023-01-01
Chapter
- How It Emerged from Odessa: Mordecai Richler and Montreal Jewish Humor -- Wit Happens: Global Jewish Humor. Wayne State University Press. 2026-02-01
- Pfefferman’s Complaint: Transparent and the Tenacity of Jewish Familial Stereotypes -- Transparent and Queering the Jewish Family on TV. Rutgers University Press. 2024-09-01
- "'We’re Safe Here, but Poland is a State of Mind': Jewish Literature and the Exploitation of Holocaust Consciousness,” -- Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust. Wayne Strate University Press. 2020-01-01
- The Jews in the Land of the Russian Tsars, 1772-1917. The Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism. 361-380. 2012-05-01
Document
- Michel Wieviorka, The Last Jewish Joke. Contemporary Jewry. 2025-10-01
- The People of the Bookshelf: Forging Soviet Jewish Identity Through Reading Jarrod Tanny reviews Marat Grinberg’s “The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines.”. Jewish Journal. 2024-01-01
- On Cherry’s Why the Jews? How Jewish Values Transformed Twentieth Century American Pop Culture. Jewish Film & New Media. 2022-11-01
- Natan M. Meir, Stepchildren of the Shtetl: The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939. AJS Review. 2021-01-01
- Anna Shternshis, When Sonia Met Boris: An Oral History of Jewish Life Under Stalin,. Journal of Jewish Identities. 2019-01-01
- Kirtsen Fermaglich, A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America. The American Jewish Archives. 2019-01-01
- Alexander Z. Gurwitz, A Yiddish Life in Russia and Texas. Southern Jewish History. 2017-01-01
- Hana Wirth-Nesher (ed.), The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature. Review of Rabbinic Judaism. 2017-01-01
- David Gillota, Ethnic Humor in Multiethnic America. Journal of American Ethnic Histor. 2015-01-01
- Faith Hillis, Children of Rus’: Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation. The American Historical Review. 2014-01-01
- Harriet Murav, Music from a Speeding Train: Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia. H-Judaic. 2012-03-01
- Review of Eugene M. Avrutin, Jews and the Imperial State: Identification Politics in Tsarist Russia. Journal of World History. 221-224. 2012-03-01
- City of Rogues and Schnorrers: Russia’s Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa. Indiana University Press. 288. 2011-10-01
- Review of Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Lenin’s Jewish Question. H-Russia. 2011-08-01
- Review of Leonid Smilovitskii, Evrei v Turove: Istoriia mestechka Mozyrskogo Poles’ia. The Russian Review. 155-156. 2010-01-01
- Review of Anna Makolkin, The Nineteenth Century in Odessa: One Hundred Years of Italian Culture on the Shores of the Black Sea (1794-1894),. University of Toronto Quarterly. 2009-01-01

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