* The Art of Jewish Humor (1974)
*America's Humor from Poor Richard to Doonesbury (1984)
*The Jewish Humor Dictionary (1983, revised 1989)
*The Handy Book of Jewish Humor (1992)
*Put a Little Humor in Your Life (1997)
*The Big Old Book of Jewish Humor (2001)
*Laughter Makes the World Go Round (2010)
*The History of Jewish Humor (2014)
Selected articles and essays
* "The Jewish Joke" (Commentary, 1969)
* "The Humor of the Holocaust" (Midstream, 1975)
* "Jewish Humor: A Cultural Perspective" (American Jewish Yearbook, 1980)
* "The Politics of Jewish Humor" (Moment, 1984)
* "The Psychology of Jewish Humor" (Jewish Social Studies, 1989)
* "The Sociology of Jewish Humor" (Shofar, 1992)
* "The Anthropology of Jewish Humor" (Journal of American Folklore, 1995)
* "The Linguistics of Jewish Humor" (Language, 1997)
* "The Philosophy of Jewish Humor" (Journal of Jewish Studies, 2000)
* "The Theology of Jewish Humor" (Judaism, 2003)