No Joke

No Joke
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9780691165813
ISBN-13 : 0691165815
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Book Synopsis No Joke by : Ruth R. Wisse

Download or read book No Joke written by Ruth R. Wisse and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--


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