Book Summary
The author tells jokes, and analyzes them in terms of Jewish culture and identity. The Genius of the Jewish Joke focuses on what is distinctive and unusual about Jewish jokes and Jewish humor and the unique role that this humor has played in the survival of the Jews. Jokes are defined as short stories, meant to amuse, with a punch line, though Jewish humor exists in many other forms_riddles, comic definitions, parodies_as well. The book makes a _radical_ suggestion about the origin of Jewish humor _ namely, that Sarah and Abraham_s relation to God, and the name of their son Isaac (which, in Hebrew, means laughter), recognizes a special affinity in Jews for humor. Abraham does not sacrifice Isaac (humor) and, thus, humor and the Jews are linked early in Jewish history.
Book Details
| Book Name | The Genius Of The Jewish Joke |
| Author | Arthur Asa Berger |
| Publisher | Transaction Publishers (Mar 2006) |
| ISBN | 9781412805537 |
| Pages | 184 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 1360 |
