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No Joke: Making Jewish Humor by Ruth R. Wisse
39.95 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Library of Jewish Ideas
Humor 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 Ph ...Show more
Story of Hebrew by Lewis Glinert
34.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Library of Jewish Ideas Ser.
The Story of Hebrew explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Jews and Christians, who have invested it with a symbolic power far beyond that of any other language in history. Preserved by the Jews across two millennia, Hebrew endured long after it ceased to be a mother tongue, resulting in ...Show more
The Story of Hebrew by Lewis Glinert
54.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Library of Jewish Ideas
A unique history of the Hebrew language from biblical times to the modern Jewish state This book explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Jews and Christians, who have invested it with a symbolic power far beyond that of any other language in history. Preserved by the Jews across two mille ...Show more
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