The Jewish Joke (eBook)

An essay with examples (less essay, more examples)

Devorah Baum (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-78283-193-8 (ISBN)

Rezensionen

Hers is the book to turn to if you're looking to amuse your friends and has something in common with the joke books we used to pass around as kids ... [Shows] the sorrow that is the dark underside of laughter - sorrow that belongs to everyone

This book is funny, clever and, at times, heartbreaking. In other words, Jewish

A breezy, accessible meditation on how [Jewish] humour works, and why it is so integral to Jewish identity... There is much for the scholar to enjoy in Baum's erudite but lightly sketched analysis of how humour helps us to deal with ageing, dislocation, impossible families and sexual confusion. Alternatively, you could just read it for the gags

[Baum is] intellectually luminous, psychologically penetrating, existentially anxious, and wonderfully funny

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.10.2017
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Humor / Satire
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Abraham • Anti-Semitism • david baddiel • David Schneider • Devorah Baum • Feeling Jewish (a book for just about anyone) • Freud • Funny • Groucho Marx • Humour • Jerry Seinfeld • joke book • Lena Dunham • Marx • On Marriage Devorah Baum • Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations • self-deprecation • The Jewish joke • The New Man • University of Southampton • Woody Allen • Yiddish
• ISBN-10: 1-78283-193-2 / 1782831932
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-193-8 / 9781782831938