No joke : 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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Main Author: Wisse, Ruth R. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2013.
Series:Library of Jewish ideas.
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