A Club of Their Own: Jewish Humorists and the Contemporary World

Volume XXIX of Studies in Contemporary Jewry takes its title from a joke by Groucho Marx: "I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member." The line encapsulates one of the most important characteristics of Jewish humor: the desire to buffer oneself from potentially unsafe or awkward situations, and thus to achieve social and emotional freedom. By studying the history and development of Jewish humor, the essays in this volume not...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190646128
• ISBN13: 9780190646127
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"