The Jewish Joke: An essay with examples (less essay, more examples)

Author:   Devorah Baum
Publisher:   Profile Books Ltd
Edition:   Main
ISBN:  

9781781255230


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   26 October 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Devorah Baum
Publisher:   Profile Books Ltd
Imprint:   Profile Books Ltd
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Width: 12.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 18.40cm
Weight:   0.216kg
ISBN:  

9781781255230


ISBN 10:   1781255237
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   26 October 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Language:   English

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


This book is funny, clever and, at times, heartbreaking. In other words, Jewish. -- David Baddiel A Jew and a non-Jew read Devorah Baum's The Jewish Joke. They both found it hilarious and thought-provoking. Because it is. -- David Schneider Devorah Baum's breezy, accessible new 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. -- Matthew Reisz * Times Higher * 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 ... [it shows] the sorrow that is the dark underside of laughter - sorrow that belongs to everyone. -- Erica Wagner * New Statesman * Even the most avid collectors of Jewish jokes are likely to find fresh material in it * The Economist *


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Devorah Baum is the author of the forthcoming Feeling Jewish (a book for just about anyone) (Yale, 2017) and co-director of the forthcoming documentary film, The New Man. She is Lecturer in English Literature and Critical Theory at the University of Southampton and affiliate of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations.

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