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No Joke

Making Jewish Humor

No Joke( )
Author: Wisse, Ruth R.
Series title:Library of Jewish Ideas Ser.
ISBN:978-0-691-16581-3
Publication Date:Mar 2015
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $19.95
Book Description:

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 atten

Book Details
Pages:296
Detailed Subjects: Humor / Topic / Regional & Cultural
Literary Criticism / Humor
History / Jewish
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.797 x 8.424 x 0.714 Inches
Book Weight:0.684 Pounds



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