In a major work of scholarship both erudite and very funny, Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from Biblical times to the age of Twitter.Organizing his book thematically into what he calls the seven strands of Jewish comedyincluding the satirical, the witty, and the vulgarDauber 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. And he explores an enormous range of comic masterpieces, from the Book of Esther, Talmudic rabbi jokes, Yiddish satires, Borscht Belt skits, Seinfeld, and Curb Your Enthusiasm 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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From the National Book Award-winning author of the “brave…deeply humane…open-minded, critically informed, and poetic” (The New York Times) The Noonday Demon, comes a game-changer of a book about the impact of extreme personal...
The powerfully compelling novelization of the major motion picture (October 14, 2016) by Joel and Luke Smallbone of the band for KING & COUNTRY.James Stevens was, at one time, a good man with a great life. After the tragic death of his wife and losi...
A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress can lead to lifelong health problems, and shows us what we can do to break the cycle.Two-thirds of us have experienced at least one adverse childhood experience, or ACE, such as abuse, neglect, par...
Narrator: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris Published: 01/23/2018
Oh, Florida! To some people, it's a paradise. To others, it's a punch line. As Oh, Florida! shows, it's both of these and, more important, it's a Petri dish, producing trends that end up influencing the rest of the country. Without Florida there wou...
Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its oppo...
With this Dickensian tale from America’s heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the her...
Sex is cheap. Coupled sexual activity has become more widely available than ever. Cheap sex has been made possible by two technologies that have little to do with each other—the Pill and high-quality pornography—and its distribution made...
From acclaimed journalist Bill Gifford comes a roaring journey into the world of anti-aging science--a place filled with extraordinary breakthroughs and dangerous deceptions. SPRING CHICKEN: How To Stay Young Forever (Or Die Trying)SPRING CHICKEN i...
