JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling by Steve Zeitlin bilingual - The Museum of Modern

- The Museum of Modern Art

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doing so brings back to the forefront Olive and Griff’s tangled histories and their complicated reflections on that tumultuous time in their young lives

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JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling by Steve Zeitlin bilingual - The Museum of ModernJEWels 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 hybridjokes and stories boiled down to their essence in short poemsJewish witticism is preserved side by side with evocative storytelling and deepened with running commentary and questions for discussion. Illuminated here are jewels from journeys,