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<p>jewish Humor Mirrors The Minds And Hearts Of The Jewish People. It Reflects Their Joys And Sorrows, Hopes And Disappointments. Perhaps Most Significant, It Demonstrates Their Willingness To Poke Fun At Themselves, Which Has No Doubt Enabled Jews To Endure Centuries Of Hardship With Head Held High And A Smile On Their Collective Face.<p><p> In The Encyclopedia Of Jewish Humor, Hailed As A Landmark Work When First Published, Henry D. Spalding Presents Delightful Anecdotes, Quips, Jokes, And Yarns Featuring The Colorful Folk Who Have Added Spice And Spirit To Jewish Life From Biblical To Modern Times. Some Of The Selections Are Pungent, Many Are Scornful Of Deceit And Pretense, Others Are Alive With Brotherhood. Most Are Just Downright Hilarious.<p> <p> In Thirty-nine Chapters, Spalding Allows Forty Centuries Of Jewish Life To Speak Through Characters We Have All Grown To Love. Here, You'll Find The Itinerant Shnorrer Who Arrives In A Small Lithuanian Town Late One Friday Afternoon With No Place To Stay; The Yiddishe Papa Whose Task It Is To Instruct Little Mortie In The Ways Of The Birds And Bees; The Congregant Whose Life's Goal, It Seems, Is To Make His Rabbi Miserable; The Hypo

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Author

and edited by Henry D. Spalding; with a glossary by Dorothy H. Rochmis

Publisher

Henry D. Spalding Jonathan David Publishers

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824604370

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Social Science, Education