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Michael Krasny has been telling Jewish jokes since his pub mitzvah, and it's been said that he understands more of them than anyone on the planet. He certainly expresses his case in this sensible, enlightening, and amusing reserve that not only collects the best of Jewish humor passed on from generation to generation but explains the cultural expressions and anxieties behind the laughs. With his record as a scholar and public-radio web host, Krasny delves deeply in to the themes, subject areas, and form of Jewish humor: chauvinism undercut by irony and self-mockery; worries of losing cultural id through assimilation; the value of vocal inflection in joke telling; and message or calls to communal ram, like the use of Yiddish. Borrowing from traditional humor and such Jewish comedy legends as Jackie Mason, Mel Brooks, Joan Streams, Larry David, Sarah Silverman, Jerry Seinfeld, and Amy Schumer, Let There Be Laughter is an absolute pleasure for the chosen and goyim alike.
