No Joke: Making Jewish Humor AUTH-11786439 which also included The Spacious

which also included The Spacious Adventures of the Man in the Street (1928) and Asses in Clover (1933)

be it culture

in a language that bridges to the idiom of his later work

“Those who trust in the Lord will find new strength

a deep trust in the Lord

No Joke: Making Jewish Humor AUTH-11786439 which also included The SpaciousWhy the genius of Jewish humor runs risks as well as rewards 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