TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wisse,Ruth R.
TI  - No joke: making Jewish humor 
T2  - Library of Jewish ideas
SN  - 9781400846344
AV  - PN6149 .N656 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Jewish wit and humor
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Jews
KW  - Humor
KW  - Anecdotes
KW  - Jewish humor
KW  - Wit and humor
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; German lebensraum --; Yiddish heartland --; The Anglosphere --; Under Hitler and Stalin --; Hebrew homeland --; Conclusion: when can I stop laughing?; 2; b
N2  - 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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