Wit Happens: Global Jewish Humor edited by Jennifer Caplan, Jarrod Tanny, Avinoam Patt Sale Books extensive historical notes

extensive historical notes

mystical themes

this collection of nineteen texts

we cannot understand the nineteenth-century American Jewish experience

Sketches take readers on a journey through local tradition and significant social change

Wit Happens: Global Jewish Humor edited by Jennifer Caplan, Jarrod Tanny, Avinoam Patt Sale Books extensive historical notesSearching for some well traveled humor? Look no further than this innovative collection, which investigates Jewish humor in television, film, comedy performance, and literature spanning Canada, the US, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. This wide ranging compilation of Jewish "humors"from the fallout of a Holocaust joke told in Japan, to Mel Brooks's invocation of longstanding Jewish satirization in Blazing Saddles, to reevaluations of