No joke [electronic resource] : making Jewish humor / Ruth R. Wisse.
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...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2013.
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| Series: | Library of Jewish ideas.
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Table of Contents:
- German lebensraum
- Yiddish heartland
- The Anglosphere
- Under Hitler and Stalin
- Hebrew homeland
- Conclusion: when can I stop laughing?