Jewish Wry: Essays on Jewish Humor

Humor in Life and Letters

by Sarah Blacher Cohen (Contributor), Alan Cooper (Contributor), Albert Goldman (Contributor)

The essays in this volume analyze the development of Jewish humor from its roots in Eastern European life and writers like Sholem Aleichem, through performers such as Eddie Cantor and Sophie Tucker, to the present figures such as Philip Roth, Woody Allen and Joan Rivers. The contributors include Irving Howe, Robert Alter, Meyer Wiener, Joseph Boskin, Albert Goldman, Sanford Pinsker, Alan Cooper, and Esther Fuchs.

Genres: Judaica, Humor

244 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1990

Reviews

[Adam]

I couldn't finish most of the essays. I found most of them difficult to parse and overly reliant on references that are now out of date. Such references are fine, but the essays needn't rely so heavily upon them.