Jewish Humor

An Outcome of Historical Experience, Survival and Wisdom

Arie Sover (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

339 Seiten

2021 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-6447-3 (ISBN)

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This book details the evolution of Jewish humor, highlighting its long history from the period of the Bible to the present day, and includes a wide spectrum of styles that are expressed in various works and fields, including the Bible, the Talmud, poetry, literature, folklore, jokes, movies, and television series. It focuses upon three socio-geographic regions where the majority of Jewish people lived during the 18th to 21st centuries and where Jewish humor was created, developed and thrived: Eastern Europe, the United States and Israel. The text is a complicated mosaic based on three central components of Jewish life: historical experience, survival, and wisdom. It shows that one cannot understand Jewish humor without referring to the various factors which led the Jewish people to create their unusual sense of humor.

Professor Arie Sover, PhD, is a Lecturer and Researcher in Communication and Humor Studies and works at the Open University of Israel. He focuses on humor research, especially Jewish humor. He has published many articles and five books in this area, namely The Languages of Humor (2018); Laughter: An Interdisciplinary Anthology of Humor Research (2018); The Importance of Not Being Ernest (2012); Plays: Comedy, Absurd, Satire (2010); and Humor: The Pathway to Human Laughter (2009). He is the founder and Editor of the Israeli Journal of Humor Research and Humor Mekuvan, and Chair of the Israeli Society for Humor Studies.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2021
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-5275-6447-9 / 1527564479
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-6447-3 / 9781527564473
Zustand	Neuware