No Joke : Making Jewish Humor /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wisse, Ruth R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Jews > Humor.
Jewish wit and humor.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Humor.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Humour juif > Histoire et critique.
Jews > Humor > History and criticism.
Jewish wit and humor > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • German lebensraum
  • Yiddish heartland
  • The Anglosphere
  • Under Hitler and Stalin
  • Hebrew homeland
  • Conclusion: when can I stop laughing?

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