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When the Jews of Eastern Europe came to the United States in the 19th century, they brought with them their own special humor. Developed in response to the dissonant reality of their lives, their self-critical humor served as a source of salvation, enabling them to endure a painful history with a sense of power. In America, the marginal status of immigrant Jews prompted them to use humor a a defense, exaggerating or mocking their ethnicity as ...

In presenting Ozick as a comedian of ideas, Sarah Blacher Cohen has raised the study of Ozick to a new level. - Alan L. Berger. [Cohen] understands Ozick's hybrid conception of human nature, her realization that the secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow and that the ironic mode ...is the best way of telling the truth. - Daniel Walden. Bringing to bear insights from Jewish, literary, and cultural studies, Sarah Blacher Cohen sheds new li...

Restoring the "Jewish half-genius" in women's drama, this collection powerfully conveys the exile of Jewish womanhood within the community, the traumas of the Holocaust on victim and survivor, Black-Jewish confrontation, Arab-Israeli conflict, and other topics.

Ten Contemporary plays that dramatize the volatile relationships between Blacks and Jews in American society.

Ten Contemporary plays that dramatize the volatile relationships between Blacks and Jews in American society.