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, an...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of Jewish Ideas ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 8 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction: The Best Medicine
- 1. German Lebensraum
- 2. Yiddish Heartland
- 3. The Anglosphere
- 4. Under Hitler and Stalin
- 5. Hebrew Homeland
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index