JEWels : teasing out the poetry in Jewish humor and storytelling
(Book)
Contributors
Published
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press ;, [2023].
ISBN
9780827615526, 0827615523
Physical Desc
xxiv, 291 pages ; 26 cm
Status
Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Newton - Adult | 808.879 J54Z 2023 | Checked Out |
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Published
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press ;, [2023].
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9780827615526, 0827615523
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"JEWels is the first of its kind: the living tradition of Jewish stories and jokes transformed into poems, recording and reflecting Jewish experience from ancient times through the present day. In this novel hybrid--jokes and stories boiled down to their essence in short poems--Jewish witticism is preserved side by side with evocative storytelling and deepened with running commentary and questions for discussion. Illuminated here are jewels from journeys, from the Old Country, from Torah, shaped by the Holocaust, in glimpses of Jewish American lives, in Jewish foods, in conversations with God, and on the meaning of life. Jewish comedians (Lenny Bruce, Jackie Mason) appear alongside writers and musicians (Elie Wiesel, Sholem Aleichem, Itzhak Perlman) and Hasidic rabbis (the Baal Shem Tov, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov), yet most of the tellers are ordinary Jews. In this cacophony of ongoing dialogue, storytellers, rabbis, poets, and scholars chime in with interpretations, quips, and related stories and life experiences. In JEWels each of us can see our own reflection."--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Zeitlin, S. J., & Schram, P. (2023). JEWels: teasing out the poetry in Jewish humor and storytelling . University of Nebraska Press ;.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Zeitlin, Steven J. and Peninnah, Schram. 2023. JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling. University of Nebraska Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Zeitlin, Steven J. and Peninnah, Schram. JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling University of Nebraska Press, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Zeitlin, Steven J.,, and Peninnah Schram. JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling University of Nebraska Press ;, 2023.
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