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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Devorah BaumPublisher: Profile Books Ltd Imprint: Profile Books Ltd Edition: Main Dimensions: Width: 12.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 18.40cm Weight: 0.216kg ISBN: 9781781255230ISBN 10: 1781255237 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 26 October 2017 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsThis 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 * Author InformationDevorah 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |