[PDF.73gf] Jewish Wry: Essays on Jewish Humor (Humor in Life and Letters Series)

Jewish Wry: Essays on Jewish Humor (Humor in Life and Letters Series)

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 | #2648878 in Books |  Wayne State University Press |  1990-12-01 |  1990-12-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.50 x6.00l,.80 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||About the Author|Sarah Blacher Cohen is professor of English at The State University of New York at Albany. She is the author of Saul Bellow's Enigmatic Laughter and editor of Comic Releif and From Hester to Hollywood.

When the Jews of Eastern Europe came to the United States in the 19th century, they brought with them their own special humor. Developed in response to the dissonant reality of their lives, their self-critical humor served as a source of salvation, enabling them to endure a painful history with a sense of power. In America, the marginal status of immigrant Jews prompted them to use humor a a defense, exaggerating or mocking their ethnicity as events dictated.

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