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Feeling Jewish: (A Book for Just About Anyone) by Devorah Baum
44.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
In this sparkling debut, a young critic offers an original, passionate, and erudite account of what it means to feel Jewish-even when you're not. Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother-Love. In this witty, insightful, and poignant book, Devorah Baum delves into fiction, f ...Show more
On Marriage by Devorah Baum
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
For better or worse, for richer for poorer, till death us do part - we've always done it and we're still doing it. Of all our cultural institutions, marriage is the most ancient, but also the most puzzling. In this compelling and delightful book, Devorah Baum examines the many meanings we have given to ...Show more
On Marriage by Devorah Baum
36.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
A compulsively readable, startling, and philosophically rich book about marriage, from an acclaimed critic and filmmaker "As far back as our history books go, we have no record of a time preceding marriage. Isn't that an extraordinary fact?" So writes Devorah Baum in this searching and revelatory book. ...Show more
The Jewish Joke: An essay with examples (less essay, more examples) by Devorah Baum
22.99 AUD
Category: Humour
'This book is funny, clever and, at times, heartbreaking. In other words, Jewish' David Baddiel'[Baum is] intellectually luminous, psychologically penetrating, existentially anxious, and wonderfully funny' Zadie Smith'Hilarious and thought-provoking' David SchneiderThe Jewish joke is as old as Abraham, ...Show more
The Jewish Joke: An essay with examples (less essay, more examples) by Devorah Baum
19.99 AUD
Category: Humour
The Jewish joke is as old as Abraham, and like the Jews themselves it has wandered over the world, learned countless new languages, worked with a range of different materials, been performed in front of some pretty hostile crowds, but still retained its own distinctive identity. So what is it that anima ...Show more
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