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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : History

131-285/385 Jewish Humour: From the Bible To Broadway

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

Dr M Baker

Contact:

One 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial a week.

Content:

A reading of Jewish culture by considering what has made Jews, at different points in their history, laugh. A study of humour and biblical and medieval Jewish narratives; Yiddish folklore; the migration of humour to the New World; the Jews and Hollywood; Woody Allen and contemporary American Jewry; the uses of laughter during the Holocaust.

Assessment:

Written work done during the year will consist of class papers and essays of up to 5000 words in total.
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