Humoresque (1919 short story)

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Humoresque: A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It is a 1919 short story by Fannie Hurst. It debuted in Cosmopolitan in March that year and later that year was published in the collection Humoresque and Other Stories.{{Cite book |last=Hurst |first=Fannie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I8HT0PL5HOIC&dq=%22Humoresque+and+Other+Stories%22+1919&pg=PA144 |title=The Stories of Fannie Hurst |date=2004 |publisher=Feminist Press at CUNY |isbn=978-1-55861-483-3 |pages=144 |language=en}} The plot focuses on a tale of young Jewish violinist caught between ghetto and salon.{{Cite journal |last=Cripps |first=Thomas |date=1975-07-01 |title=The Movie Jew as an Image of Assimilationism, 1903-1927 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00472719.1975.10661772 |journal=Journal of Popular Film |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=190–207 |language=EN |doi=10.1080/00472719.1975.10661772 |issn=0047-2719}}{{Citation |last=Wallach |first=Kerry |title=Buy Me a Mink: Jews, Fur, and Conspicuous Consumption |date=2022 |work=Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America |series=Worlds of Consumption |pages=133–158 |editor-last=Lerner |editor-first=Paul |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-88960-9_6 |access-date=2024-12-25 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-88960-9_6 |isbn=978-3-030-88960-9 |editor2-last=Spiekermann |editor2-first=Uwe |editor3-last=Schenderlein |editor3-first=Anne}}{{Citation |last=Toffell |first=Gil |title=Films of Jewish Interest |date=2018 |work=Jews, Cinema and Public Life in Interwar Britain |pages=61–112 |editor-last=Toffell |editor-first=Gil |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-56931-8_3 |access-date=2024-12-25 |place=London |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |language=en |doi=10.1057/978-1-137-56931-8_3 |isbn=978-1-137-56931-8}}{{Cite book |last=Buhle |first=Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qAuLgwZEYOkC&dq=Humoresque+%22short+story%22+successful&pg=PA66 |title=From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture |date=2004-06-17 |publisher=Verso |isbn=978-1-85984-598-1 |pages=66–67 |language=en}}

It was adapted into stage plays (1923, directed by J. Hartley Manners) and films (1920, directed by Frank Borzage; 1946, directed by Jean Negulesco) of the same name.{{Cite book |last=Goble |first=Alan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yyqc0Qa6b60C&dq=%22Humoresque%22+1919+1923+1920+1946&pg=PA235 |title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film |date=2011-09-08 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-095194-3 |pages=235 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last1=Lant |first1=Antonia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mdpkAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Humoresque%22+1919+1923+1920+1946 |title=Red Velvet Seat: Women's Writings on the First Fifty Years of Cinema |last2=Periz |first2=Ingrid |date=2006-12-17 |publisher=Verso Books |isbn=978-1-85984-722-0 |pages=528 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Hischak |first=Thomas S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vfie60kGGuAC&dq=%22Humoresque%22+1919+1923+stage&pg=PA97 |title=American Literature on Stage and Screen: 525 Works and Their Adaptations |date=2014-01-10 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-9279-4 |pages=97–98 |language=en}}