Jewish Comedy: A Serious History

by Jeremy Dauber

Book Overview

In a major work of scholarship both erudite and very funny, Columbia professor Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing the product of Jews' comic imagination over continents and centuries into what he calls the seven strands of Jewish comedy--including the satirical, the witty, and the vulgar--he traces the ways Jewish comedy has mirrored, and sometimes even shaped,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393247872
• ISBN13: 9780393247879
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"