El humor judío

Humor has been a fundamental aspect of Judaism and permeates its cultural tradition as far back as the Old Testament. Jeremy Dauber masterfully explores the origins of Jewish humor and its evolution to the present day. Through the analysis of the traditional forms of Jewish humor -satire, wit or eschatology, among others- he reveals that persecution, exile, cultural assimilation, religiosity, diaspora and identity, essential to explain the experience Jewish, are the pillars on which its comic tradition is built. It also traces the rise and fall of the main Jewish humorous archetypes with the help of masters such as Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, Franz Kafka, the Marx Brothers, Woody Allen, Joan Rivers, Philip Roth, Mel Brooks, Sarah Silverman and Larry David among many others. A rigorous and funny essay that addresses with a sense of humor a matter as serious as the history of the Jewish people and reminds us that, sometimes, laughter can restore the balance of sanity.