Henry D. Spalding
Autor de Encyclopedia of Jewish Humor: From Biblical Times to the Modern Age
Sobre El Autor
Henry D. Spalding, a native of New York City, was a reporter for the New York Mirror and the Journal. While a member of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., he was an accredited White House correspondent. Mr. Spalding was active as editor and publisher of Deejay, Disc, and Top Ten as well mostrar más as of Talent News mostrar menos
Obras de Henry D. Spalding
Ency. Of Jewish Humor 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- male
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 19
- Miembros
- 547
- Popularidad
- #45,593
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 30
In the Encyclopedia of Jewish Humor, hailed as a landmark work when first published, Henry D. Spalding presents delightful anecdotes, quips, jokes, and yarns featuring the colorful folk who have added spice and spirit to Jewish life from biblical to modern times. Some of the selections are pungent, many are scornful of deceit and pretense, others are alive with brotherhood. Most are just downright hilarious.
In thirty-nine chapters, Spalding allows forty centuries of Jewish life to speak through characters we have all grown to love. Here, you'll find the itinerant shnorrer who arrives in a small Lithuanian town late one Friday afternoon with no place to stay; the Yiddishe papa whose task it is to instruct little Mortie in the ways of the birds and bees; the congregant whose life's goal, it seems, is to make his rabbi miserable; the hypochondriac who complains of ailments as yet undiscovered. The author (re)introduces us to the shlemiels and shlimazls, rebbes and rebbetzins, mamas and papas, doctors and patients, marriage brokers and divorce lawyers, yeshiva students and sisterhood presidents whose peculiar antics never fail to entertain.
In the preface to this classic work, Henry Spalding writes that the surest way to destroy humor is to analyze it. So no more analyzing...Now it's time to read a little something!NOTES: Purchased from the Amazon Marketplace. SUBTITLE: From Biblical Times to the Modern Age… (más)