This handbook addresses the methodological problems and theoretical challenges that arise in attempting to understand and represent humour in specific historica

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Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award “Dauber deftly surveys the whole recorded history of Jewish humour.” —Economist In a major work of scholarship

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