Jewish Comedy A Serious Histor

Dauber, Jeremy

ISBN 10: 0393247872 / ISBN 13: 9780393247879

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2017

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In a major work of scholarship both erudite and very funny, Columbia professor Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing the product of Jews’ comic imagination over continents and centuries into what he calls the seven strands of Jewish comedy—including the satirical, the witty, and the vulgar—he traces the ways Jewish comedy has mirrored, and sometimes even shaped, the course of Jewish history. Persecution, cultural assimilation, religious revival, diaspora, Zionism—all of these, and more, were grist for the Jewish comic mill; and Dauber’s book takes readers on the tour of the funny side of some very serious business. (And vice versa.)SeinfeldBroad CityJewish Comedy

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Jeremy Dauber is a professor of Jewish literature and American studies at Columbia University. He is the author of Jewish Comedy and The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem, both finalists for the National Jewish Book Award. He lives in New York City.

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Titel: Jewish Comedy A Serious Histor
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good