No Joke
Download or Read eBook No Joke PDF 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.
| Author | : Ruth R. Wisse |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2015-03 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780691165813 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0691165815 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis No Joke by : Ruth R. Wisse
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"--
