Let There Be Laughter: A Treasury of Great Jewish Humor and What It All Means by Krasny, Michael

Let There Be Laughter: A Treasury of Great Jewish Humor and What It All Means

From the host of NPR affiliate's Forum with Michael Krasny, a compendium of Jewish jokes that packs...
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Let There Be Laughter: A Treasury of Great Jewish Humor and What It All Means by Krasny, Michael

Let There Be Laughter: A Treasury of Great Jewish Humor and What It All Means

$45.28

Let There Be Laughter: A Treasury of Great Jewish Humor and What It All Means

$45.28
Author: Michael Krasny
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

From the host of NPR affiliate's Forum with Michael Krasny, a compendium of Jewish jokes that packs the punches with hilarious riff after riff and also offers a window into Jewish culture.

Michael Krasny has been telling Jewish jokes since his bar mitzvah, and it's been said that he knows more of them than anyone on the planet. He certainly states his case in this wise, enlightening, and hilarious book that not only collects the best of Jewish humor passed down from generation to generation, but explains the cultural expressions and anxieties behind the laughs.

"What's Jewish Alzheimer's?"
"You forget everything but the grudges."

"You must be so proud. Your daughter is the President of the United States!"
"Yes. But her brother is a doctor!"

"Isn't Jewish humor masochistic?"
"No. And if I hear that one more time I am going to kill myself."

With his background as a scholar and public-radio host, Krasny delves deeply into the themes, topics, and form 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.

Borrowing from traditional humor and such Jewish comedy legends as Jackie Mason, Mel Brooks, and Joan Rivers, Larry David, Sarah Silverman, Jerry Seinfeld and Amy Schumer, Let There Be Laughter is an absolute pleasure for the chosen and goyim alike.



Author: Michael Krasny
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 09/27/2016
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 7.50h x 6.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780062422040

About the Author
Krasny, Michael: -

Michael Krasny, Ph.D., is a scholar and professor of English and American literature, an award-winning broadcast journalist, and the author of two acclaimed books, Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life and Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic's Quest. He released a twenty-four-lecture series in two volumes called Masterpieces of Short Fiction for The Teaching Company, which is also available in audio and DVD format. Since 1993 he has been the host of Forum with Michael Krasny, a news and public affairs interview program produced at KQED Radio, the National Public Radio affiliate in San Francisco, California. The program is the most-listened-to locally produced public radio program in the United States, and the number one program in its morning time slot in the San Francisco Bay Area market. Forum can also be heard on SiriusXM, Comcast, iTunes, and across the internet.



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