LEADER 03443nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910786993903321 005 20230803030102.0 010 $a1-4008-4634-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400846344 035 $a(CKB)2670000000358323 035 $a(EBL)1131669 035 $a(OCoLC)843882773 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000887892 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11472030 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000887892 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10847073 035 $a(PQKB)10272941 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1131669 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43398 035 $a(DE-B1597)453877 035 $a(OCoLC)979758553 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400846344 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1131669 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10699913 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL489781 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000358323 100 $a20130102d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNo joke$b[electronic resource] $emaking Jewish humor /$fRuth R. Wisse 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (297 p.) 225 1 $aLibrary of Jewish ideas 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-16581-5 311 0 $a0-691-14946-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tIntroduction: The Best Medicine --$t1. German Lebensraum --$t2. Yiddish Heartland --$t3. The Anglosphere --$t4. Under Hitler and Stalin --$t5. Hebrew Homeland --$tConclusion --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aHumor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. 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And is "leave 'em laughing" the wisest motto for a people that others have intended to sweep off the stage of history? 410 0$aLibrary of Jewish ideas. 606 $aJewish wit and humor$xHistory and criticism 606 $aJews$xHumor$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aJewish wit and humor$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aJews$xHumor$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809.7/98924 700 $aWisse$b Ruth R$0793246 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786993903321 996 $aNo joke$93688647 997 $aUNINA LEADER 04534nam 2200685 450 001 9910816904803321 005 20230803205702.0 010 $a1-4384-5354-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000261368 035 $a(EBL)3408944 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001499573 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11918207 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001499573 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11511056 035 $a(PQKB)11675446 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3408944 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3408944 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10954092 035 $a(OCoLC)893676533 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000261368 100 $a20141020h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aSufism and American literary maste /$fedited by Mehdi Aminrazavi ; foreword by Jacob Needleman 210 1$aAlbany, New York :$cSUNY Press,$d2014. 210 4$d©2014 215 $a1 online resource (314 p.) 225 1 $aSUNY Series in Islam 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4384-5353-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Contents ""; ""Foreword ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Notes ""; ""The English Romantic Background ""; ""1. English Romantics and Persian Sufi Poets: A Wellspring of Inspiration for American Transcendentalists ""; ""Platonism in Romantic and Sufi Poetry ""; ""Comparative Persiana???English Poetics: Archetypal and Anagogic Criticism ""; ""Anagogic Correspondences Between Sufi and Romantic Poetry ""; ""Carpe Diem ""; ""Nunc Aeternum ""; ""Mundus Imaginalis ""; ""Annihilation, Mystical Death, Fanaa??? ""; ""The Unity of Religions "" 327 $a""Conclusion: Platonic Poetics and the Science of Anagogic Criticism """"Notes ""; ""The Master: Emerson and Sufism ""; ""2. The Chronological Development of Emersona???s Interest in Persian Mysticism ""; ""Notes ""; ""3. Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Muslim Orient ""; ""Notes ""; ""4. Emerson and Aspects of Saa???dia???s Reception in Nineteenth-Century America ""; ""Notes ""; ""5. Emerson on Hafiz and Saa???di: The Narrative of Love and Wine ""; ""Emersona???s Encounter with Persian Literature ""; ""Emersona???s Writings on Persian Mystical Literature ""; ""Emersona???s Translations from Hafiz "" 327 $a""Echoes of Hafiza???s Poems in Emersona???s Verse """"Notes ""; ""The Disciple: Walt Whitman ""; ""6. Whitman and Hafiz: Expressions of Universal Love and Tolerance ""; ""Notes ""; ""7. Walt Whitman and Sufism: Towards a???A Persian Lessona??? ""; ""A Song of Myself ""; ""Whitman and Rumi ""; ""Notes ""; ""The Initiates: Other American Authors ""; ""8. Literary a???Mastersa??? in the Literature of Thomas Lake Harris, Lawrence Oliphant, and Paschal Beverly Randolph ""; ""Thomas Lake Harris ""; ""Laurence Oliphant ""; ""Paschal Beverly Randolph ""; ""Conclusions ""; ""Notes "" 327 $a""9. American Transcendentalistsa??? Interpretations of Sufism: Thoreau, Whitman, Longfellow, Lowell, Melville, and Lafcadio Hearn """"Longfellow, Lowell, Melville, and Lafcadio Hearn ""; ""Notes ""; ""10. The Persians of Concord ""; ""Notes ""; ""11. Omarian Poets of America ""; ""The Omar Khayyam Club of America ""; ""The Omarian Poets of New England ""; ""The Rubaa???iyyat of Mark Twain ""; ""The Eliots ""; ""Other American Literary Movements and Figures ""; ""Notes ""; ""12. a???Bond Slave to FitzGeralda???s Omara???: Mark Twain and The RubA?¡iyA?¡t ""; ""Notes "" 327 $a""13. Mark Twaina???s Rubaa???iyyat: AGEa???A RubA?¡iyA?¡t """"Note ""; ""Glossary ""; ""Bibliography ""; ""List of Contributors ""; ""Index "" 410 0$aSUNY series in Islam. 606 $aAmerican poetry$xIslamic influences 606 $aSufi poetry, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSufism in literature 606 $aMuslims in literature 606 $aIslam in literature 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xIslamic influences. 615 0$aSufi poetry, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSufism in literature. 615 0$aMuslims in literature. 615 0$aIslam in literature. 676 $a810.9382974 702 $aAminrazavi$b Mehdi 702 $aNeedleman$b Jacob 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816904803321 996 $aSufism and American literary maste$94119254 997 $aUNINA