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Komishe nakht (Comical Night)
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Advertisement for an October 20, 1918, Yiddish production of Komishe nakht, a French comedy by José Sanz Pérez, adapted into Yiddish by M. Oyerbakh.

Contributor:

Salon Casa Suiza

Places:

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Date:

1912

Subjects:

Performing arts, Humor, Jewish languages, Yiddish, Advertisements

Categories:

Advertisements, Performing Arts
Page with Yiddish and Spanish titles and small portrait photographs.
The Schlemiel as Modern Hero
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[ . . . ] Modern Jewish humor grows from the tension of having to reconcile a belief as absolute as Elijah’s with an experience of failure as absolute as that of the priests of Baal…

Contributor:

Ruth R. Wisse

Places:

Date:

1971

Subjects:

Holocaust, Theology, Humor, Jewish languages, Yiddish, Education

Categories:

Pedagogy & Schooling, Historical writing