Jarrod Tanny

Originally from Montreal, Canada, Jarrod Tanny is Professor of History and the Charles and Hannah Block Distinguished Scholar in Jewish History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He is the author of City of Rogues and Schnorrers: Russia’s Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa (Indiana University Press, 2011), The Seinfeld Talmud: A Jewish Guide to a Show About Nothing (Academica Press, 2023), and Tales of a Yid in Dixieland: Bible Jokes, Southern Folks, and the Woke Who Shame the Jews (2025), and the short eBook The Golem of Prague and his Wonderous Adventures in Dixie (2015). He also also published numerous essays on Jewish humor.