Let there be laughter
Subtitle: a treasury of great Jewish humor and what it all means
By: Michael Krasny
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: William Morrow, An Imprint HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780062422040
Subjects: Jewish wit and humor; History and criticism; Humor; Jews
Description: "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.
Notes: "More than 100 of the funniest Jewish jokes of all time"--Jacket.