JEWels
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JEWels

Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling

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JEWels

Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling

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JEWels is the first of its kind: the living tradition of Jewish stories and jokes transformed into poems, recording and reflecting Jewish experience from ancient times through the present day. In this novel hybrid—jokes and stories boiled down to their essence in short poems—Jewish witticism is preserved side by side with evocative storytelling and deepened with running commentary and questions for discussion. Illuminated here are jewels from journeys, from the Old Country, from Torah, shaped by the Holocaust, in glimpses of Jewish American lives, in Jewish foods, in conversations with God, and on the meaning of life. Jewish comedians (Lenny Bruce, Jackie Mason) appear alongside writers and musicians (Elie Wiesel, Sholem Aleichem, Itzhak Perlman) and Hasidic rabbis (the Baal Shem Tov, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov), yet most of the tellers are ordinary Jews. In this cacophony of ongoing dialogue, storytellers, rabbis, poets, and scholars chime in with interpretations, quips, and related stories and life experiences. In JEWels each of us can see our own reflection.

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Publisher
The Jewish Publication Society
Year
2023
ISBN
9780827619005
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: The Ancient Living Tradition of Jewish Jokes and Stories
  7. 1. jewels . . . in Stories
  8. 2. jewels . . . on a Journey
  9. 3. jewels . . . from the Old Country
  10. 4. jewels . . . in Jokes
  11. 5. jewels . . . from Torah
  12. 6. jewels . . . Shaped by the Holocaust
  13. 7. jewels . . . in Glimpses of Jewish American Lives
  14. 8. jewels . . . in Jewish Foods
  15. 9. jewels . . . in Conversations with God
  16. 10. jewels . . . on the Meaning of Life
  17. 11. Final Thoughts
  18. Questions for Discussion
  19. Source Acknowledgments
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Commentator Biographies
  23. Index
  24. About Steve Zeitlin