"Humor." . . "Jüdische Literatur." . . "Jewish wit and humor" . . "LITERARY CRITICISM / Humor" . . . . "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary" . . "Jews Humor History and criticism." . . "Wit and humor." . . "Humour juif Histoire et critique." . . "Jews Humor History and criticism Electronic books." . . "Jewish humor." . . "Jews Humor" . . "Anecdotes." . . . "No Joke : making jewish humor" . "No joke : making Jewish humor" . . "No Joke (eGalley) Making Jewish Humor"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Humor" . . . . . "Criticism, interpretation, etc" . "No joke making Jewish humor" . . "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 humor into being--and the price it may exact from its practitioners and audience. Wisse broadly traces modern Jewish humor around the world, teasing out its implications as she explores memorable and telling examples from German, Yiddish, English, Russian, and Hebrew." . . . . "Electronic books"@en . "Electronic books" . "No joke : making jewish humor"@en . . . . "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 humor into being--and the price it may exact from its practitioners and audience. Wisse broadly traces modern Jewish humor around the world, teasing out its implications as she explores memorable and telling examples from German, Yiddish, English, Russian, and Hebrew." . . "Juden." . . "Jewish wit and humor History and criticism." . . "Geschichte 1800-2010." . .