Let There Be Laughter: A Treasury of Great Jewish Humor and What It All Means (Hardcover)

from Esta1923

A splendid survey of jokes, simple and complicated. California readers will probably reconstruct Michael Krasny's voice. All readers will appreciate his gift to us as we amuse our family and friends.

from Judiex

LET THERE BE LAUGHTER is more than a book of Jewish jokes. While Michael Krasney does include a lot of jokes in eight different categories, he explains what function the jokes serve and why they can be both funny and insulting, often stereotypical. He also compares the different styles of jokes b...

from firewontquell

Fun book with some good jokes! Learned some new ones, which my mom and bubbe both appreciated. The text between jokes is interesting, but can be a little rambling and disjointed at times. Overall thoroughly enjoyed it!

from bookczuk

Interesting commentary, but there were times I found myself using the "Playboy Technique": reading it just for the jokes. There are definite characteristics of Jewish humor that the author explores, both scholastically and, of course, with humor and examples. Though not all of the jokes stem from...

from amyblue

Michael Krasny gives both an overview of the themes of Jewish humor and many anecdotes from his career interviewing famous people...populated throughout, of course, with Jewish jokes!