On Monday, October 17th at 7pm, author and radio host Michael Krasny will be at MPC discussing his new book Let There Be Laughter: A Treasury of Great Jewish Humor and What It All Means. This hilarious and insightful book offers up a heavenly host of jokes and shows their connection to the Jewish culture, philosophy and anxieties. We hope you can join us for what is sure to be a thought-provoking and fun talk.
About Michael Krasny
Michael Krasny Ph.D., is a scholar and Professor of English and American Literature, the host of KQED’s “Forum with Michael Krasny,” an award winning broadcast journalist, and author of two acclaimed books, Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life and Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic’s Search. Since 1993 he has been the host of “Forum with Michael Krasny,” a news and public affairs interview program produced at KQED Radio, the National Public Radio affiliate in San Francisco, California. (source: William Morrow publishing)
About Let There Be Laughter
In this new book, Michael Krasny pairs the most iconic Jewish jokes with wise and entertaining explanations, illuminating the cultural expressions and anxieties behind the laughs. […] With his background as a scholar and public-radio host, Krasny delves deeply into the themes, topics, and forms of Jewish humor: chauvinism undercut by irony and self-mockery, the fear of losing cultural identity through assimilation, the importance of vocal inflection in joke-telling, and calls to communal memory, including the use of Yiddish.(source: William Morrow publishing)
Author photo credit Howard Schatz
Parking will be available in the lot at nearby Thornhill Elementary School (see below); more parking info and directions info are available on MPC’s parking and directions page.
