The Jewish Joke
Descripción del producto
'This book is funny, clever and, at times, heartbreaking. In other words, Jewish' David Baddiel
'[Baum is] intellectually luminous, psychologically penetrating, existentially anxious, and wonderfully funny' Zadie Smith
'Hilarious and thought-provoking' David Schneider
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, but 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?
The Jewish Joke is a brilliant - and very funny - riff on Jewish jokes, about what marks them apart from other jokes, why they are important to Jewish identity and how they work. Ranging from self-deprecation to anti-Semitism, politics to sex, it looks at the past of Jewish joking and asks whether the Jewish joke has a future. With jokes from Amy Schumer, Lena Dunham and Jerry Seinfeld, as well as Freud and Marx (Groucho mostly), this is both a compendium and a commentary, light-hearted and deeply insightful.
Sinopsis del producto
'This book is funny, clever and, at times, heartbreaking. In other words, Jewish' David Baddiel
'[Baum is] intellectually luminous, psychologically penetrating, existentially anxious, and wonderfully funny' Zadie Smith
'Hilarious and thought-provoking' David Schneider
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, but 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?
The Jewish Joke is a brilliant - and very funny - riff on Jewish jokes, about what marks them apart from other jokes, why they are important to Jewish identity and how they work. Ranging from self-deprecation to anti-Semitism, politics to sex, it looks at the past of Jewish joking and asks whether the Jewish joke has a future. With jokes from Amy Schumer, Lena Dunham and Jerry Seinfeld, as well as Freud and Marx (Groucho mostly), this is both a compendium and a commentary, light-hearted and deeply insightful.
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The Jewish joke; Abraham; self-deprecation; anti-Semitism; Woody Allen; Lena Dunham; Jerry Seinfeld; Freud; Marx; Groucho Marx; funny; humour; joke book; yiddish; Devorah Baum; Feeling Jewish (a book for just about anyone); The New Man; University of Southampton; Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations; David Baddiel; David Schneider; On Marriage Devorah Baum
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