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A Sampler of Jewish-American Folklore

Author : Josepha Sherman
Publisher : august house
ISBN 13 : 9780874831948
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book A Sampler of Jewish-American Folklore written by Josepha Sherman and published by august house. This book was released on 1992 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this American Folklore Series volume, Josepha Sherman presents the rich and varied folklore of the American Jew. This affectionate and unflinching examination of the traditions of American Jews offers insights for expert and casual students of folklore and makes an ideal gift for anyone interested in the origins of Jewish culture. Includes line drawings, collection notes, motif index, and bibliography.

Yiddishe Kop

Author : Rabbi Nilton Bonder
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834829320
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Yiddishe Kop written by Rabbi Nilton Bonder and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1999-06-29 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jews are known for their intuitive genius in getting out of a pickle. With their long history of persecution, they've developed a knack for escaping seemingly hopeless predicaments: when your back is against the wall, you learn to think fast. Centuries of reasoning and interpreting the Holy Scriptures have also contributed to the Jews' skill in solving the most puzzling problems. This astute way of thinking is known in Yiddish as yiddishe kop, literally "Jewish head." Through Jewish humor, folklore, and tales of the great rabbis, Rabbi Nilton Bonder presents the basic principles of this creative approach to thinking, which sees beyond appearances to the hidden truth of any problem. Once these are mastered, they may in turn be applied to many "impossible" situations that arise in business and in life. The book focuses on four levels of solving a problem: 1. On the level of Information, we approach problems literally, in response to the obvious and the concrete. 2. On the level of Understanding, we obtain concealed information through techniques such as questioning, reframing, and emptying the mind. 3. On the level of Wisdom, we access the world of intuition, where a "fool" can achieve the impossible by relying on feelings, premonitions, dreams, and coincidences. 4. On the level of Reverence, we discover the hidden Reality behind appearances. This is the realm of those who dare to take risks, make commitments, and learn from mistakes, who act out of their living experience without relying solely on reason and conceptual thinking.

Engaging Humor

Author : Elliott Oring
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252075935
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Engaging Humor written by Elliott Oring and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008-08-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the structure, motives, and meanings of humor in everyday life

Who We Are

Author : Derek Rubin
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0307493113
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Who We Are written by Derek Rubin and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2010-02-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unprecedented collection brings together the major Jewish American writers of the past fifty years as they examine issues of identity and how they’ve made their work respond. E.L. Doctorow questions the very notion of the Jewish American writer, insisting that all great writing is secular and universal. Allegra Goodman embraces the categorization, arguing that it immediately binds her to her readers. Dara Horn, among the youngest of these writers, describes the tendency of Jewish writers to focus on anti-Semitism and advocates a more creative and positive way of telling the Jewish story. Thane Rosenbaum explains that as a child of Holocaust survivors, he was driven to write in an attempt to reimagine the tragic endings in Jewish history. Here are the stories of how these writers became who they are: Saul Bellow on his adolescence in Chicago, Grace Paley on her early love of Romantic poetry, Chaim Potok on being transformed by the work of Evelyn Waugh. Here, too, are Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Erica Jong, Jonathon Rosen, Tova Mirvis, Pearl Abraham, Alan Lelchuk, Rebecca Goldstein, Nessa Rapoport, and many more. Spanning three generations of Jewish writing in America, these essays — by turns nostalgic, comic, moving, and deeply provocative- constitute an invaluable investigation into the thinking and the work of some of America’s most important writers.

Jewish Wit for All Occasions

Author : Simon R. Pollack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780891041535
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Wit for All Occasions written by Simon R. Pollack and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Life is Like a Glass of Tea

Author : Richard Raskin
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
ISBN 13 : 1610273214
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Life is Like a Glass of Tea written by Richard Raskin and published by Quid Pro Books. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book on Jewish humor in which individual jokes are singled out for comprehensive study, Life is Like a Glass of Tea devotes a chapter to each of eight major jokes, tracing its history and variants—and looking closely at the ways in which the comic behavior enacted in the punchline can be interpreted. One of the unique properties of classic Jewish jokes is their openness to radically different interpretive options (having nothing to do with wordplay or double entendre). This openness to alternate interpretations—never before discussed in the literature on Jewish humor—gives classic Jewish jokes their special flavor, as they leave us wondering which of several possible attitudes we are expected to hold toward the comic figure. An additional chapter is devoted to the ways in which Jewish jokes tend to evolve over time and across language and cultural barriers. Throughout the book, in fact, one can see the processes that Jewish jokes undergo over decades as their comic potential is unfolded in successive stages, and when they are transplanted from European to American soil. Now in its Second Edition, this expanded version adds two new chapters and new introductory material. It includes a 2015 Foreword by Marc Galanter, who notes that the author “is concerned not only with what makes jokes funny but with what makes some of them profound. His imaginative response to this puzzle makes this little book a distinctive and engaging contribution to the literature on Jewish jokes and on jokes generally.” It will appeal to the general reader, as well as to readers especially interested in Jewish culture, the psychology of humor, religion, ethnography, and folklore. “Richard Raskin’s book on Jewish humor was the most original and useful I found in years of research on the topic. I’m delighted to see it back in print—and with added chapters!” — Ruth Wisse Professor Emerita, Yiddish and Comparative Literature, Harvard University Author, No Joke: Making Jewish Humor (2013) “A fascinating book that explores the richness of Jewish humor. Raskin offers a thought-provoking analysis of what makes Jewish humor special. Raskin merges an understanding of Jewish culture, fresh psychological insights, and a sophisticated reading of jokes and their evolution to create a gem of a book. However, it is not just an outstanding book on Jewish humor. It is an outstanding book on humor. Period. After reading it, you won’t laugh the same way again.” — Dov Cohen Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Co-editor, Handbook of Cultural Psychology (2007)

Transnational Transcendence

Author : Thomas J. Csordas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520257412
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Transnational Transcendence written by Thomas J. Csordas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This innovative collection examines the transnational movements, effects, and transformations of religion in the contemporary world, offering a fresh perspective on the interrelation between globalization and religion. Taken as a whole, Transnational Transcendence challenges some widely accepted ideas about this relationship, in particular, that international contemporary religious manifestations are secondary to the primary economic phenomenon of globalization."--P. [4] of cover.

Similes Dictionary

Author : Elyse Sommer
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
ISBN 13 : 1578594685
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (785 download)

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Download or read book Similes Dictionary written by Elyse Sommer and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with more than 16,000 imaginative, colorful phrases—from “abandoned as a used Kleenex” to “quiet as an eel swimming in oil”—this reference will help any politician, writer, or lover of language find the perfect simile, be it original or banal, verbose or succinct. Citing more than 2,000 sources—from the Bible, Socrates, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, and H. L. Mencken to popular movies, music, and television shows—the Simile Dictionary covers hundreds of subjects broken into thematic categories that include topics such as virtue, anger, age, ambition, importance, and youth, helping readers find the fitting phrase quickly and easily. Perfect for setting the atmosphere, making a point, and or helping spin a tale with economy, intelligence, and ingenuity, the similes found in this collection, where pithy and poetic sayings are “as plentiful as blackberries” (Shakespeare) and quotes are “as useful as a Swiss army knife” (anonymous), will inspire anyone.

Life's Like That

Author : Prashant V Shrivastava
Publisher : Blackbuck Publication
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life's Like That written by Prashant V Shrivastava and published by Blackbuck Publication. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the beautiful city of Udaipur, this love story is filled with everything, jealousy, one sided love and betrayal. Amit gets approval of Preeti, his love and Ishita, who unknowingly helped Amit gets involved with Sankalp. The story moves on with ups and down of college life A nicely flowing story takes turn when opulent guy Shekar comes into the picture who is not only rich but intelligent. Unlike fairy tales, the love starts to take a backseat and money takes the charge Do dreams shatter when they meet the harsh reality? can waves of love survive having hit by the shore of wealth? can love still be based on fairy tales where money cannot distract? Remember its money that is running the world, love is only Art of life. So what wins and what should win?

Day of Honey

Author : Annia Ciezadlo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416583947
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Day of Honey written by Annia Ciezadlo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 2011.

Temporality and Film Analysis

Author : Matilda Mroz
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748643478
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Temporality and Film Analysis written by Matilda Mroz and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matilda Mroz argues that cinema provides an ideal opportunity to engage with ideas of temporal flow and change. Temporality, however, remains an underexplored area of film analysis, which frequently discusses images as though they were still rather than moving. This book traces the operation of duration in cinema, and argues that temporality should be a central concern of film scholarship. In close readings of Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura, Andrei Tarkovsky's Mirror, and the ten short films that make up Krzysztof Kie?lowski's Decalogue series, Mroz highlights how film analysis must consider both particular moments in cinema which are critically significant, and the way in which such moments interrelate in temporal flux. She explores the concepts of duration and rhythm, resonance and uncertainty, affect, sense and texture, to bring a fresh perspective to film analysis and criticism.Essential reading for students and scholars in Film Studies, this engaging study will also be a valuable resource for critical theorists.

Life in the Fat Lane:My Life as I Lived It

Author : Phyllis Dianna Tinseth Chi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781465318893
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Life in the Fat Lane:My Life as I Lived It written by Phyllis Dianna Tinseth Chi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-08-29 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in the Fat Lane is a collection of memoirs about the life of an ordinary person who lived an ordinary life. But like everyone's lives, hers was unique to her. From growing up in a small Minnesota town to teaching in South Korea to working for the Federal Government, these memoirs will let you travel through one person's experiences and see how they shaped her life. Traveling with Phyllis in the fat lane will also give you some perspective regarding the difficulties of growing up and living in a world made for normal-sized people.

The Stolen Jew

Author : Jay Neugeboren
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815605362
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Stolen Jew written by Jay Neugeboren and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nathan Malkin returns to New York from premature retirement in Israel, he comes bearing a heavy baggage of memory-insistent recollections of his parents' bitter marriage, of the tragic deaths of his wife and only son, and of his strange, guiltridden relationship with a deranged, now deceased brother, Nachman. Central to Malkin's schemes is The Stolen Jew, a famous novel he wrote many years back that tells the luminous, wonderfully melodramatic tale of a Jewish boy in Imperial Russia kidnapped from a shtetl to fulfill another boy's term of service in the czar's army.

A Life Like Other People's

Author : Alan Bennett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571254926
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book A Life Like Other People's written by Alan Bennett and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Bennett's A Life Like Other People's is a poignant family memoir offering a portrait of his parents' marriage and recalling his Leeds childhood, Christmases with Grandma Peel, and the lives, loves and deaths of his unforgettable aunties Kathleen and Myra. Bennett's powerful account of his mother's descent into depression and later dementia comes hand in hand with the uncovering of a long-held tragic secret. A heartrending and at times irresistibly funny work of autobiography by one of the best-loved English writers alive today.

Cassell's Educator for the Young, etc. [Another edition of “The Child's Educator.”]

Author : John CASSELL
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Cassell's Educator for the Young, etc. [Another edition of “The Child's Educator.”] written by John CASSELL and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bureau of Past Management

Author : Iris Hanika
Publisher : V&Q Books
ISBN 13 : 3863913264
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book The Bureau of Past Management written by Iris Hanika and published by V&Q Books. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of us has something that feels essential to who we are. For Hans Frambach, it's the crimes of the Nazi era, which have hurt him for as long as he can remember. That's why he became an archivist at the Bureau of Past Management; now, though, he's wondering if he should make a change. For his best friend, Graziela, that past was also her focal point – until she met a man who desired her. From then on, sexual pleasure became the key to her life; a concept she's now beginning to doubt. Hans and Graziela thought the Nazi crimes were the inheritance that neither could bear, but can we really blame Nazism for everything? Iris Hanika shows how the crimes of the Nazi era hold the Germans in their clutches to this day, and the absurdities to which institutionalising commemoration leads.Can a country manage its past, or ought we to remain helpless in the face of the horrific crimes of the Holocaust?

Life Is Like a Glass of Tea

Author : Richard Raskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610273206
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book Life Is Like a Glass of Tea written by Richard Raskin and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book on Jewish humor in which individual jokes are singled out for comprehensive study, Life is Like a Glass of Tea devotes a chapter to each of eight major jokes, tracing its history and variants - and looking closely at the ways in which the comic behavior enacted in the punchline can be interpreted. One of the unique properties of classic Jewish jokes is their openness to radically different interpretive options (having nothing to do with wordplay or double entendre). This openness to alternate interpretations-never before discussed in the literature on Jewish humor - gives classic Jewish jokes their special flavor, as they leave us wondering which of several possible attitudes we are expected to hold toward the comic figure. An additional chapter is devoted to the ways in which Jewish jokes tend to evolve over time and across language and cultural barriers. Throughout the book, in fact, one can see the processes that Jewish jokes undergo over decades as their comic potential is unfolded in successive stages, and when they are transplanted from European to American soil. Now in its Second Edition, this expanded version adds two new chapters and new introductory material. It includes a 2015 Foreword by Marc Galanter, who notes that the author "is concerned not only with what makes jokes funny but with what makes some of them profound. His imaginative response to this puzzle makes this little book a distinctive and engaging contribution to the literature on Jewish jokes and on jokes generally." It will appeal to the general reader, as well as to readers especially interested in Jewish culture, the psychology of humor, religion, ethnography, and folklore. "Richard Raskin's book on Jewish humor was the most original and useful I found in years of research on the topic. I'm delighted to see it back in print - and with added chapters!" - Ruth Wisse Professor Emerita, Yiddish and Comparative Literature, Harvard University Author, No Joke: Making Jewish Humor (2013) "A fascinating book that explores the richness of Jewish humor. Raskin offers a thought-provoking analysis of what makes Jewish humor special. Raskin merges an understanding of Jewish culture, fresh psychological insights, and a sophisticated reading of jokes and their evolution to create a gem of a book. However, it is not just an outstanding book on Jewish humor. It is an outstanding book on humor. Period. After reading it, you won't laugh the same way again." - Dov Cohen Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Co-editor, Handbook of Cultural Psychology (2007)