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	Podcast:		UC Santa Barbara (Audio)
	Episode:		No Joke: Making Jewish Humor with Ruth Wisse
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		00:56:31
	Publish Date:		2016-06-03 16:00:00
	Description:		Ruth Wisse, Professor of Yiddish Literature at Harvard University, discusses her book, No Joke: Making Jewish Humor. She broadly traces and celebrates modern Jewish humor but also asks difficult questions: Can the excess and extreme self-ridicule of Jewish humor go too far and backfire in the process? And is "leave 'em laughing" the wisest motto for a people that others have intended to sweep off the stage of history? Series: "Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30867]
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