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"Krasny delves deeply into the themes, topics and forms of Jewish humor: chauvinism undercut by irony and self-mockery; the fear of losing cultural identity through assimilation; the importance of vocal inflection in joke-telling; and calls to communal memory, including the use of Yiddish."--Book jacket.
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1 edition- Other · English · 2016William Morrow, An Imprint HarperCollins Publishers · 279 pages · 9780062422040
Jewish wit and humorHistory and criticismHumorJewsNew York Times reviewedHUMOR / Form / Jokes & RiddlesHUMOR / Topic / Religion