No Joke: Making Jewish Humor
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Best Medicine
1. German Lebensraum
2. Yiddish Heartland
3. The Anglosphere
4. Under Hitler and Stalin
5. Hebrew Homeland
Conclusion: When Can I Stop Laughing?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Suggested Reading
Two Poems
Two untitled poems by Avraham Halfi, translated by Leon Wieseltier.
Oh, the Humanity!
Would the demise or even disappearance of human beings be, on the whole, a good thing. Yuval Noah Harari seems to think so, or is at least willing to entertain the thought.
Who Is Man?
Two new books on sin and temptation.
Brother Daniel, Sister Ulitskaya
Ludmila Ulitskaya's fictionalized version of the Brother Daniel case asks us all to turn the other cheek.
