No joke: making jewish humor
Auteur :
Wisse, Ruth R.
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691165813
Date de publication :
1 mars 2015
Dimensions :
20,3 x 12,7 cm
Poids :
318 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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 atten