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Jewish comedy : a serious history

text Jewish comedy : a serious history

Dauber, Jeremy Asher

Summary
In a major work of scholarship both erudite and very funny, Columbia professor Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing the product of Jews’ comic imagination over ... Read more
Contents
Introduction: a joke, two definitions, seven themes -- Warnings, and another joke -- What's so funny about anti-semitism? -- Nice jewish doctors -- The wit of the jews -- A view from the bottom -- The divine comedy -- The tale of the folk -- Jewis... Read more
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xviii, 364 pages ; B25 cm
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company 2017
MARC Permalink

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 808.7 DAU in Adult Non-fiction Available

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