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245 10 a| No joke :b| making Jewish humor /c| Ruth R. Wisse.;

264 1 a| Princeton, New Jersey :b| Princeton University Press,c| [2013];

300 a| 279 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 23 cm.;

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490 1 a| Library of Jewish ideas;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| German lebensraum -- Yiddish heartland -- The Anglosphere -- Under Hitler and Stalin -- Hebrew homeland -- Conclusion: when can I stop laughing?;

520 a| 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.;

650 0 a| Jewish wit and humorx| History and criticism.=| ^A1012630;

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

Author/creator	Wisse, Ruth R. author.
Format	Book
Publication	Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Copyright Date	©2013
Description	279 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects	Jewish wit and humor--History and criticism. Jews--Humor. --History and criticism.

Series	Library of Jewish ideas Library of Jewish ideas. ^A1144985
Contents	German lebensraum -- Yiddish heartland -- The Anglosphere -- Under Hitler and Stalin -- Hebrew homeland -- Conclusion: when can I stop laughing?
Abstract	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/form	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre/form	Humor.
LCCN	2012051631
ISBN	9780691149462 (alk. paper)
ISBN	0691149461 (alk. paper)
Standard identifier#	40022475029

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