No Joke: Making Jewish Humor

by Ruth R. Wisse

Book Overview

Why the genius of Jewish humor runs risks as well as rewards

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691149461
• ISBN13: 9780691149462
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"