No Joke: Making Jewish Humor
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1. Verfasser: Wisse, Ruth R. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton [u.a.] Princeton Univ. Pr 2013
Schriftenreihe:Library of Jewish Ideas
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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 audience. Wisse broadly traces modern Jewish humor around the world, teasing out its implications as she explores mem
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (297 S.)
ISBN:9781400846344
DOI:10.1515/9781400846344

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