How is Jewish humor different from all other humor? The answer, it turns out, has a lot to do with Jewish identity itself, notes Devorah Baum. The Jewish joke is as old as Abraham (Did he really think he would have to sacrifice his son Isaac? What a schlemiel!), and like the Jews, it has wandered all over the world, learned countless new languages, been performed in front of some pretty hostile crowds, yet still retained its own distinctive flavor. Mining the humor of Jerry Seinfeld and Sarah Silverman, Woody Allen and Lena Dunham, not to mention Freud and Marx (Groucho, mostly), Baum dives deeply into Jewish consciousness, and also gives you enough jokes for a pretty solid standup routine.