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Again, there have been so many great ones: William Steig, Saul Steinberg, David Sipress, Mort Gerberg, Jules Feiffer, Bob Mankoff, Roz Chast. Like any good joke, a funny cartoon detonates laughter by taking a familiar topic and treating it from an unexpected perspective, provoking simultaneous feelings of recognition and surprise. How have Jewish cartoonists succeeded in creating so many brilliant cartoons, dominating the field for more than a century? And what specific aspects of American Jewish culture have they drawn in creating their distinctive cartoon universes?