Krasny, Michael Jay,  1944- <br/><br/>
Let there be laughter :   a treasury of great Jewish humor & what it all means / 
 Treasury of great Jewish humor & what it all means 
Michael Krasny.  
 - New York, NY :  William Morrow, An Imprint HarperCollins Publishers,   2016. 
 - xvii, 279 pages ;   20 cm . 
<br/><br/> "More than 100 of the funniest Jewish jokes of all time"--Jacket 
<br/><br/>Introduction<br/>I. Jewish mothers & Jewish bubbies<br/>II. Sex & marriage<br/>III. Schlemiels & schmucks<br/>IV. Yiddish, generations & assimilation<br/>V. Celebration<br/>VI. Suffering<br/>VII. Separate & distinct<br/>Conclusion & outtakes<br/>Acknowledgments 
<br/><br/> Krasny delves deeply into the themes, topics and forms of Jewish humor: chauvinism undercut by irony and self-mockery; the fear of losing cultural identity through assimilation; the importance of vocal inflection in joke-telling; and calls to communal memory, including the use of Yiddish."--Jacket. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780062422040  0062422049 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Humorismo judío 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 6231  / K89l 2016