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Cloth. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Book Club. Hardback. In this lively and varied treasury of Jewish humour, you will find anecdotal wisdom from the pages of the Talmud comfortably ensconced next to the most contemporary of jokes, while homely stories about mothers sit between the smart repartee of show-biz and the bitter humour of the ghetto. In his introduction, Alfred Marks suggests that the Jews' capacity for survival is linked to their capacity to make jokes in the most unlikely circumstances. His knowledgeable and entertaining comments and explanations have made a medley of diverse and contrasting entries into a cornucopia of earthy comedy and sparkling wit. Epigrams, jokes, anecdotes, poems, proverbs, one-liners and literary extracts combine in this book to form an eclectic compendium that is as much fun to read from cover to cover as it will be to dip into time and again. 208 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Book Club. Hardback. In this lively and varied treasury of Jewish humour, you will find anecdotal wisdom from the pages of the Talmud comfortably ensconced next to the most contemporary of jokes, while homely stories about mothers sit between the smart repartee of show-biz and the bitter humour of the ghetto. In his introduction, Alfred Marks suggests that the Jews' capacity for survival is linked to their capacity to make jokes in the most unlikely circumstances. His knowledgeable and entertaining comments and explanations have made a medley of diverse and contrasting entries into a cornucopia of earthy comedy and sparkling wit. Epigrams, jokes, anecdotes, poems, proverbs, one-liners and literary extracts combine in this book to form an eclectic compendium that is as much fun to read from cover to cover as it will be to dip into time and again. 208 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…