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296 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780691165813
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 01 March 2015
Description
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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296 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780691165813
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 01 March 2015
Description
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...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings