Let there be laughter : a treasury of great Jewish humor & what it all means /
Krasny, Michael Jay, 1944-
Let there be laughter : a treasury of great Jewish humor & what it all means / Michael Krasny - New York, NY : William Morrow, An Imprint HarperCollins Publishers ; 2016 . - 279 pages : illutrations ; 20 cm .
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."--Jacket.
9780062422040
/ K89 2016
Let there be laughter : a treasury of great Jewish humor & what it all means / Michael Krasny - New York, NY : William Morrow, An Imprint HarperCollins Publishers ; 2016 . - 279 pages : illutrations ; 20 cm .
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."--Jacket.
9780062422040
/ K89 2016