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Ari Kelman - Is Diss a System?: A Milt Gross Comic Reader - 9780814748237 - V9780814748237
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Is Diss a System?: A Milt Gross Comic Reader

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Description for Is Diss a System?: A Milt Gross Comic Reader Hardback. Presents some of the most outstanding and hilarious examples of Jewish dialect humour drawn from the five books Milt Gross (1895-1953) published between 1926 and 1928 - "Nize Baby", "De Night in de Front from Chreesmas", "Hiawatta", "Dunt Esk", and "Famous Fimmales". Editor(s): Kelman, Ari Y. Series: Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History. Num Pages: 308 pages, 120 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1KBB; AC; AKLC; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 458.

Milt Gross (1895-1953), a Bronx-born cartoonist and animator, first found fame in the late 1920s, writing comic strips and newspaper columns in the unmistakable accent of Jewish immigrants. By the end of the 1920s, Gross had become one of the most famous humorists in the United States, his work drawing praise from writers like H. L. Mencken and Constance Roarke, even while some of his Jewish colleagues found Gross’ extreme renderings of Jewish accents to be more crass than comical.
Working during the decline of vaudeville and the rise of the newspaper cartoon strip, Gross captured American humor in ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
New York University Press
Condition
New
Series
Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814748237
SKU
V9780814748237
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Ari Kelman
Ari Y. Kelman is Jim Joseph Professor of Education and Jewish Studies at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education. He is the author of Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio in the United States (UC Press 2009) and Shout to the Lord: Making Music in Evangelical America (NYU Press 2018).

Reviews for Is Diss a System?: A Milt Gross Comic Reader
Is Diss a System? brings back Milt Gross with a bang. Artist, tongue-twisting language humorist, Gross was a great figure of American popular culture in the first half of the twentieth century, sadly forgotten . . . until now! Kelman has given us all a gift by selecting, annotating and celebrating a multiculturalism that rings with humor, humanism and a ... Read more

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