Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust argues that humor performs political, cultural, and social functions in the wake
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Examines joking relationships, children's and ethnic humor, social aspects of laughter, and humor and religion, lan
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The chapters in this volume examine a few facets in the drama of how the survivors of the Holocaust contended with life
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Presenting a cultural and interdisciplinary study of humor in Spain from the eighteenth century to the present day, this
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Authoritarian Laughter explores the political history of the satire and humor magazine Broom published in Soviet Lithuan
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Ancient philosophers considered question about laughter, humor, and comedy to be both philosophically interesting and im
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Although numerous scholars have studied Late Republican humor, this is the first book to examine its social and politica
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Many of us belong to communities that have been scarred by terrible calamities. And many of us come from families that h
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