Filled with Laughter: a Fiesta of Jewish Folk Humor

1961

351 pages

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Dewey * 550.7

LC Classification Adult

Genre

Adult / Literature / Folklore, Parables, Fairy Tales, Myths, Legends, Fables

Subject

550.7 Jewish Literature / Anthologies & Selections / Humor, Satire, Wit, Sayings, Proverbs 550.7

Plot

The abundance and quality of a people's folklore will reflect its experience and sensitivity, and perhaps no sector of it will be found more revealing than its humor. Folk humor is generally free from individual mannersisms, and is therefore authentic and refereshing. In the case of a sensitive people like the Jews, so throughouly schooled in expereince and suffering, its homor will be spiced with irony.It will not only provoke laugher, but stimulate and excite the mind.

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