The Israeli Association for Humor Studies has two refereed ejournals: The Israeli Journal of Humor Research : An International Journal in English (and possibly French), and Humor Mekuvvan: A Research Journal in Humor Studies, which is mainly in Hebrew, but also publishes papers in English.
Humor Mekuvvan is the first Israeli journal that deals with humor research. The journal was established by Dr. Arie Sover. He is its editor, whereas Dr. Ephraim Nissan is its associated editor. The first issue of Humor Mekuvvan has appeared in the autumn of 2011.
Humor Mekuvvan engages with humor studies from the viewpoints of an array of different disciplines, including but not limited to psychology, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, media studies, folklore studies, literary studies, the movies, theater, the visual arts, linguistics and pragmatics, translation studies, sociology, education research & practice, medical applications or neurology, cognitive science, computer science (computational humour as an area of artificial intelligence and natural-language processing).
This journal is a forum for research into Israeli or Jewish humor, or into humour in general. Articles are sought that would engage these domains from the theoretical, empirical, descriptive, or practical/applied viewpoints.
The members of the Editorial Board are representative of the humor research community in Israel. At least one, possibly two issues per year are expected, containing articles in Hebrew or English, as well as book reviews.
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