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Jewish Comedy - A Serious History (Paperback)
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Jewish Comedy - A Serious History (Paperback)
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List price R451
Loot Price R376
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You Save R75 (17%)
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In a work of scholarship both erudite and funny, Jeremy Dauber
traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from
biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organising his book
thematically into what he calls the seven strands of Jewish comedy
(including the Satirical, the Witty and the Vulgar), Dauber
explores the ways Jewish comedy has dealt with persecution,
assimilation and diaspora through the ages. He explains the rise
and fall of popular comic archetypes such as the Jewish mother, the
JAP, and the schlemiel and schlimazel. He also explores a range of
comic masterpieces, from the Book of Esther, Talmudic rabbi jokes,
Yiddish satires, Borscht Belt skits and Seinfeld to the work of
such masters as Sholem Aleichem, Franz Kafka, the Marx Brothers,
Woody Allen, Joan Rivers, Philip Roth, Sarah Silverman and Jon
Stewart.
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