Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this guide, 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. On the same time, Wisse attracts consideration to the precarious conditions that decision Jewish humor into being--and the price it may actual from its practitioners and audience.
Wisse broadly traces modern Jewish humor world wide, teasing out its implications as she explores memorable and telling examples from German, Yiddish, English, Russian, and Hebrew. Amongst different topics, the guide looks at how Jewish humor channeled Jewish learning and wordsmanship into new avenues of creativity, introduced relief to liberal non-Jews in repressive societies, and enriched in style culture within the United States.
Even because it invites readers to contemplate the pleasures and earnings of Jewish humor, the book asks troublesome but fascinating questions: Can the surplus and excessive self-ridicule of Jewish humor go too far and backfire within the process? And is "leave 'em laughing" the wisest motto for a people who others have meant to comb off the stage of history?
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