Jeremy Dauber on Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew

Join prolific author, scholar, and critic Jeremy Dauber (Columbia), who will discuss his book Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew, a publication from the Yale Jewish Lives Series edited by Taube Center faculty director, Steven J. Zipperstein.

Dauber And Zipperstein will explore the life and work of Mel Brooks, one of the great comic voices of the twentieth century. They will examine how Brooks’s brand of American Jewish humor became a paragon for mainstream American comedy.