Jewish Comedy Bernardo Bertolucci Alongside Moctar

Alongside Moctar

when Paul McCartney initiated proceedings to wind up The Beatles

Benny Morris probes the motives and aims of the protagonists on the basis of newly opened Israeli and Western documentation

this is a sweeping look at an underappreciated art form

Jewish Comedy Bernardo Bertolucci Alongside MoctarIn a major work of scholarship that explores the funny side of some very serious business, Jeremy Dauber examines the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing Jewish comedy into seven strands, including the satirical, the witty, and the vulgar, he traces the ways Jewish comedy has mirrored, and sometimes even shaped, the course of Jewish history.