[PDF.22gq] No Joke: Making Jewish Humor (Library of Jewish Ideas)

No Joke: Making Jewish Humor (Library of Jewish Ideas)

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 | #643004 in Books |  2013-06-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.81 x.92 x5.68l,1.04 | File type: PDF | 296 pages

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||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| seriously funny|By Michael Cahn|This is clearly not a joke book although it does contain some very funny jokes. The jokes are not free standing, but are there to demonstrate a particular point. Some of the points are very dark, like Jewish jokes about Nazi cruelty, as well asjokes refering to other persecutions. It also gives incites into many comedians and historical figure| |Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in Language & Linguistics, Association of American Publishers|Shortlisted for the 2014 Sophie Brody Medal, Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of the American Library Association

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Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish humor into being--and the price it may exact from its practitioners and...

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