In Dialogues between Faith and Reason

Bakom alla röster om Samuel skymtar en person på flykt från sig själv

Why has Babylon so creatively fired the human imagination

while addressing contemporary phenomenon within

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No Joke: Making Jewish Humor (Library of Jewish Ideas) Klassiker - pocket In Dialogues between Faith andHumor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish humor into being and the price it may exact from its