No joke : making Jewish humor
Wisse, Ruth R.2013
Book
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
Main title:
No joke : making Jewish humor / Ruth R. Wisse.
Author:
Imprint:
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Collation:
279 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780691149462 (alk paper)
Dewey class:
809.798924809.7989
LC class:
PN6149.J4
Language:
English
BRN:
136524
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Library at the Dock | -Literature | LITER 809.7989 WISS | Available |