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

The "Other" Jewish tradition.

Examining the lost art of the poetic physician. "Know that it is not in your ability to fulfill them / To God alone belongs this power."

When Aviya Kushner encountered the Bible not in Hebrew, but in translation, she was shocked at how different it was, both in form and in substance.

Melanie Phillips had stumbled into the culture wars by, as she herself describes it, “the staggering tactic of actually observing what was going on.”