No Joke: Making Jewish Humor by Ruth R. Wisse

No Joke: Making Jewish Humor

Ruth R. Wisse

296 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

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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...

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