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Wit Happens

Global Jewish Humor

Edited by Jennifer Caplan, Jarrod Tanny, Avinoam Patt ...

A collection that proves Jewish humor knows no geographic bounds.Searching for some well-traveled humor? Look no further than this innovative collection, which investigates Jewish humor in television, film, comedy performance, and literature spanning Canada, the US, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. This wide-ranging compilation of Jewish "humors"—from the fallout of a Holocaust ... Read more

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A collection that proves Jewish humor knows no geographic bounds.Searching for some well-traveled humor? Look no further than this innovative collection, which investigates Jewish humor in television, film, comedy performance, and literature spanning Canada, the US, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. This wide-ranging compilation of Jewish "humors"—from the fallout of a Holocaust
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Funny, You Don't Look Funny

Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials

by Jennifer Caplan ...

Across generations, humor has been a place for American Jews to explore the relationship between Jewish identity, practices, and history.In this comprehensive approach to Jewish humor focused on the relationship between humor and American Jewish practice, Jennifer Caplan calls us to adopt a more expansive view of what it means to "do Jewish," revealing that American Jews have turned, and continue ... Read more

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Across generations, humor has been a place for American Jews to explore the relationship between Jewish identity, practices, and history.In this comprehensive approach to Jewish humor focused on the relationship between humor and American Jewish practice, Jennifer Caplan calls us to adopt a more expansive view of what it means to "do Jewish," revealing that American Jews have turned, and continue
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Jewish Women Science Fiction Writers Create Future Females

Gender, Temporality—and Yentas

by Marleen S. Barr, Daniel J. Brin, Leigh Gold, Lisa Goldstein, Elana Gomel, Danielle Gurevitch, Lori Harrison-Kahan, Elyce Rae Helford, Erga Heller, Adeena Karasick0, Pamela Sargent1, Lance Strate2, Jack Dann3, David Brin4, Jennifer Caplan5, Professor or Dr. Steven Shaviro6 ...

Series series Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy
Jewish Women Science Fiction Writers Create Future Females: Gender, Temporality—and Yentas, the fourth volume in Marleen S. Barr’s Future Females critical feminist science fiction anthology series, is the first essay collection devoted to Jewish women science fiction writers. The anthology forges new alliances across disciplinary boundaries—feminist theory, science fiction, and Jewish Studies—by ... Read more

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Jewish Women Science Fiction Writers Create Future Females: Gender, Temporality—and Yentas, the fourth volume in Marleen S. Barr’s Future Females critical feminist science fiction anthology series, is the first essay collection devoted to Jewish women science fiction writers. The anthology forges new alliances across disciplinary boundaries—feminist theory, science fiction, and Jewish Studies—by
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Jews Don’t Count

by David Baddiel ...

A SUNDAY TIMES BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY‘A must read and if you think YOU don’t need to read it, that’s just the clue to know you do’ SARAH SILVERMAN‘A masterpiece' STEPHEN FRYHow identity politics failed one particular identity.Jews Don’t Count is a book for people who consider themselves on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight against ... ... Read more

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A SUNDAY TIMES BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY‘A must read and if you think YOU don’t need to read it, that’s just the clue to know you do’ SARAH SILVERMAN‘A masterpiece' STEPHEN FRYHow identity politics failed one particular identity.Jews Don’t Count is a book for people who consider themselves on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight against ...
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The Story of Yiddish

How a Mish-Mosh of Languages Saved the Jews

by Neal Karlen ...

"An interesting and quirky and sometimes irreverent look at how the Yiddish language has survived all over the world." — Jerusalem PostYiddish—an oft-considered "gutter" language—is an unlikely survivor of the ages, much like the Jews themselves. Its survival has been an incredible journey, especially considering how often Jews have tried to kill it themselves. Underlying Neal Karlen's unique, ... Read more

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"An interesting and quirky and sometimes irreverent look at how the Yiddish language has survived all over the world." — Jerusalem PostYiddish—an oft-considered "gutter" language—is an unlikely survivor of the ages, much like the Jews themselves. Its survival has been an incredible journey, especially considering how often Jews have tried to kill it themselves. Underlying Neal Karlen's unique,
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Jewish Humor

What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jews

by Joseph Telushkin ...

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The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia

From Abraham to Zabar's and Everything in Between

by Stephanie Butnick, Liel Leibovitz, Mark Oppenheimer, Tablet ...

Named one of Library Journal’s Best Religion & Spirituality Books of the YearFrom the hosts of Unorthodox, America’s leading Jewish podcast, comes an A-to-Z encyclopedia dedicated to all things Jewish, from the cultural to the religious, the biblical to the contemporary, the amusing to the informative, with more than 1,000 entries.Deeply knowing, highly entertaining, and just a little bit ... Read more

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Named one of Library Journal’s Best Religion & Spirituality Books of the YearFrom the hosts of Unorthodox, America’s leading Jewish podcast, comes an A-to-Z encyclopedia dedicated to all things Jewish, from the cultural to the religious, the biblical to the contemporary, the amusing to the informative, with more than 1,000 entries.Deeply knowing, highly entertaining, and just a little bit
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Jewish Comedy

A Serious History

by Jeremy Dauber ...

**Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award“Dauber deftly surveys the whole recorded history of Jewish humour.” —Economist**In a major work of scholarship that explores the funny side of some very serious business (and vice versa), Jeremy Dauber examines the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing Jewish comedy into “seven strands” ... Read more

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**Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award“Dauber deftly surveys the whole recorded history of Jewish humour.” —Economist**In a major work of scholarship that explores the funny side of some very serious business (and vice versa), Jeremy Dauber examines the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing Jewish comedy into “seven strands”
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No Joke

Making Jewish Humor

by Ruth R. Wisse ...

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Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish ... Read more

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Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish
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The No-State Solution

A Jewish Manifesto

by Daniel Boyarin ...

**A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews’ peoplehood“A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyous.”—Kirkus Reviews**Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what “the Jews” are: either a religion or a nation/ethnicity. The widespread conception is that the Jews were formerly either a religious community in exile or a nation ... Read more

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**A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews’ peoplehood“A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyous.”—Kirkus Reviews**Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what “the Jews” are: either a religion or a nation/ethnicity. The widespread conception is that the Jews were formerly either a religious community in exile or a nation
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Free as a Jew

A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation

by Ruth R. Wisse ...

First came parents with the good sense to flee Europe in 1940 and the good fortune to reach the land of freedom. Their daughter, Ruth, grew up in the shadow of genocide—but in tandem with the birth of Israel, which remained her lodestar. She learned that although Jewishness is biologically transmitted, democracy is not, and both require intensive, intelligent transmission through education in each ... Read more

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First came parents with the good sense to flee Europe in 1940 and the good fortune to reach the land of freedom. Their daughter, Ruth, grew up in the shadow of genocide—but in tandem with the birth of Israel, which remained her lodestar. She learned that although Jewishness is biologically transmitted, democracy is not, and both require intensive, intelligent transmission through education in each
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Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism

Surprising Differences, Conflicting Visions, and Worldview Implications--From the Early Church to Our Modern Time

by Jonas E. Alexis ...

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.Alexander SolzhenitsynIn this penetrating and provocative work, Jonas E. Alexis challenges common assumptions about the relationship between Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism and provides compelling evidence from history and theology that demonstrates the extent to which modern Judaism ... Read more

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The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.Alexander SolzhenitsynIn this penetrating and provocative work, Jonas E. Alexis challenges common assumptions about the relationship between Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism and provides compelling evidence from history and theology that demonstrates the extent to which modern Judaism
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