No Joke: Making Jewish Humor with Ruth Wisse

(Visit: www.uctv.tv/) Ruth Wisse, Professor of Yiddish Literature at Harvard University, discusses her book, No Joke: Making Jewish Humor. She broadly traces and celebrates modern Jewish humor but also asks difficult questions: Can the excess and extreme self-ridicule of Jewish humor go too far and backfire in the process? And is "leave 'em laughing" the wisest motto for a people that others have intended to sweep off the stage of history? Recorded on 04/14/2016. Series: "Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30867]

[@kamisimpson8555]

Please tell us more about the Engabeb (sp?) the Yiddish translator your students created & how to find it.

[@jonstein6868]

terrific talk - thanks for posting!

[@deborahrutenberg7241]

Brilliant talk ..thank you

[@debraeisenman5266]

Great speech. Very informative!

[@vfranco22]

WHATTA TUTORIAL‼️
!Muchísimas gracias!👌💖

[@lizgichora6472]

Thank you for the humour!...No Joke.

[@marksoldiers230]

She got to the point and the introduction became a pleasant interlude Whew!

[@markbricklin3096]

Some great jokes!

[@beritbranch4949]

I was cursed to have stumbled on this.

[@marksoldiers230]

The introduction was excruciatingly boring. Be brief and just get to the point.