Harpercollins Book of Jewish Humour - Couverture souple

Hockwald, Abraham

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0006279996 ISBN 13 : 9780006279990

Editeur : Fount, 1996

Synopsis

As well as anthologizing 300 Jewish jokes, this book tells of the history and development of Jewish humour.

A propos du livre

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You can tell much about a culture from its jokes. The Jews have had more than their fair share of hardship dumped upon them. So it says much about their character that an often self-deprecating irony has shone out in the most oppressing days.

Now, through the (streaming) eyes of one teacher and rabbi, we obtain a fascinating and always funny insight into a uniquely warm and strong-minded people. This hilarious collection of gags introduces the humour of early biblical and talmudic times, flies through the Middle Ages and arrives breathlessly in the modern age of the Diaspora. It is no coincidence that American, Russian, German and Israeli Jews will often target each other in their joketelling.

Italian-born Abraham Hockwald has lived and worked in Switzerland, Israel, France and Germany, so he has extensive first-hand experience of the breadth and subtlety of Jewish humour across European borders.

"Another welcome addition to the literature of Jewish traditional humour – this time from Germany, sympathetically translated"
LIONEL BLUE

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fount
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0006279996
• ISBN 13: 9780006279990
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible