Two Jews on a Train: Stories from the Old Country and the New
Language: English
Published by The University of Chicago Press, 2002
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So two Jews were on a train. All Eastern European Jewish jokes start this way, or almost says Adam Biro, who has assembled this rich volume of such stories, tales in which we hear the voices of generations using humour to teach about the delicacy, anguish, and unpredictability of life itself.
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- Title
- Two Jews on a Train: Stories from the Old Country and the New
- Author
- Adam Biro
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0226052168
- ISBN 13
- 9780226052168
Two Jews were on a train: "All Eastern European Jewish jokes start this way, or almost," says Adam Biro, who has assembled this rich volume of such stories, tales in which—thanks to a masterful translation by Catherine Tihanyi—we can hear the voices of generations using humor to teach about the delicacy, anguish, and unpredictability of life itself.
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Catherine Tihanyi is a research associate in the Department of Anthropology at Western Washington University.
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