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**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 Yiddi

Who reads Let There Be Laughter?

Author

Krasny, Michael

Publisher

William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062422057

Category

humor

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Religion

Rating

4.3 / 5 (551 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14