No joke : making Jewish humor / Ruth R. Wisse.

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Wisse, Ruth R [author.]

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400846344
140084634X
1299585310
9781299585317
9781400899135
1400899133

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No joke.DDC classification:

809.7/98924 23

LOC classification:

PN6149.J4 W49 2013eb

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Contents:

German lebensraum -- Yiddish heartland -- The Anglosphere -- Under Hitler and Stalin -- Hebrew homeland -- Conclusion: when can I stop laughing?

Summary: 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.

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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.