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No Joke: Making Jewish Humor

No Joke: Making Jewish Humor( )
Author: Wisse, Ruth R.
Series title:Library of Jewish Ideas Ser.
ISBN:978-1-299-58531-7
Publication Date:Jan 2013
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $31.00
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 attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish humor into being--and the price it may exact from its practitioners and audience.

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