Jewish Comedy: A Serious History german and their Diaspora

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and vividly depicted account of a 17-year-old boy who survives the starvation and trials of the Lodz Ghetto—including witnessing a public hanging—only to be sent with his mother to the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp

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Jewish Comedy: A Serious History german and their DiasporaDauber deftly surveys the whole recorded history of Jewish humour. Economist In a major work of scholarship that explores the funny side of some very serious business (and vice versa), Jeremy Dauber examines the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing Jewish comedy into seven strandsincluding the satirical, the witty, and the vulgarhe traces the ways Jewish comedy has mirrored, and sometimes