Wisse, Ruth R., <br/><br/>
No joke :  making Jewish humor / 
Ruth R. Wisse. 
 - Princeton :  Princeton University Press,  (c)2013. 
 - 1 online resource (279 pages). 
 - Library of Jewish ideas .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/> German lebensraum --  Yiddish heartland --  The Anglosphere --  Under Hitler and Stalin --  Hebrew homeland --  Conclusion: when can I stop laughing? 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781400846344 9781299585317 9781400899135 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Jewish wit and humor--History and criticism.<br/>Jews--History and criticism.--Humor<br/>Anecdotes.<br/>Jewish humor.<br/>Wit and humor.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN6149  / .N656 2013