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The Jewish Joke

A Short History-with Punchlines
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The Jewish joke is as old as Abraham, and like the Jews themselves it has wandered over the world, learned countless new languages, worked with a range of different materials, been performed in front of some pretty hostile crowds, and yet still retained its own distinctive identity. So what is it that animates the Jewish joke? Why are Jews so often thought of as "funny"? And how old can a joke get? With jokes from Lena Dunham to Woody Allen, as well as Freud and Marx (Groucho, mostly), Baum balances serious research with light-hearted humor and provides fascinating insight into this wellknown and much loved cultural phenomenon.

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Devorah Baum is the author of Feeling Jewish: A Book for Just About Anyone (Yale, 2017) and co-director of the documentary film The New Man. She is a lecturer in English literature and critical theory at the University of Southampton and an affiliate of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations.
Release date Australia
November 12th, 2019
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Pages
208
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  • General (US: Trade)
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111x178x10
ISBN-13
9781643132372
Product ID
29770210

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