"The Art of the Kvetch: Jewish Humor as Secularism"

A panel that includes Michael Wex (Born to Kvetch), Noah Isenberg (Between Redemption and Doom: The Strains of German-Jewish Modernism), Val Vinokur (The Trace of Judaism: Dostoevsky, Mandelstam, Babel, Levinas) and scholar Jeffrey Israel will examine Jewish humor's power to entertain and unify the different branches of the faith.