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02533aam a2200277 i 4500 001 EF261E740FF811EEB73DD90627ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230621010022 008 220722s2023 nbu e b 001 p eng 010 $a 2022019670 020 $a 0827615523 020 $a 9780827615526 035 $a (OCoLC)1337154731 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d TAW $d SILO 245 00 $a JEWels : $b teasing out the poetry in Jewish humor and storytelling / $c edited by Steve Zeitlin ; lead commentary by Peninnah Schram. 246 30 $a Teasing out the poetry in Jewish humor and storytelling 264 1 $a Lincoln : $b University of Nebraska Press ; $c [2023] 300 $a xxiv, 291 pages ; $c 26 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: the ancient living tradition of Jewish jokes and stories -- JEWels...in stories -- JEWels...on a journey -- JEWels...from the old country -- JEWels...in jokes -- JEWels...from Torah -- JEWels...shaped by the Holocaust -- JEWels...in glimpses of Jewish American lives -- JEWels...in Jewish foods -- JEWels...in conversations with God -- JEWels...on the meaning of life -- Final thoughts. 520 $a "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."-- $c Provided by publisher. 700 1 $a Zeitlin, Steven J., $e editor. 700 1 $a Schram, Peninnah, $e contributor. 941 $a 1 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20230621011141.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EF261E740FF811EEB73DD90627ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search