Year: 2021
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of jokes about the mechanisms of changing names by Jews. The purpose of the article is to consider various contexts associated with situations of change and choice of a new name among Jews in the 20th century. There is a certain range of Russian names that Jews, as a result of assimilation and name change, usually did not use for various reasons. A number of proper names became common name for representatives of a particular ethnic and social group. We will be discussed in the article these common name, linguistic games, which became the subject of jokes.
Author: Svetlana Amosova
Institution: Institute of Slavic Studies
Language: English
Topic: Jewish Identity and Society
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4206014580