No joke: making Jewish humor
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Main Author: Wisse, Ruth R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton Princeton University Press c2013
Series:Library of Jewish ideas
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
German lebensraum -- - Yiddish heartland -- - The Anglosphere -- - Under Hitler and Stalin -- - Hebrew homeland -- - Conclusion: when can I stop laughing?
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 memorable and telling examples from German, Yiddish, English, Russian, and Hebrew
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (279 p.)
ISBN:0691149461
1299585310
140084634X
9780691149462
9781299585317
9781400846344

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