Simon Schama Tells Jewish Jokes

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Simon Schama Tells Jewish Jokes
Sunday, November 8, 2009 @ 12:00 p.m.

World-renowned historian and cultural critic Simon Schama is best known as the droll, erudite host of the BBC’s A History of Britain and Simon Schama’s Power of Art. But he also indulges in a secret passion: collecting and recounting a vast array of Jewish jokes. Schama joins Festival artistic director Lawrence Weschler to share some of his funniest jokes and unpack their complex cultural resonances in a sort of klezmer slapdown.

Simon Schama is professor of history and art history at Columbia University and the author of over a dozen books. His articles have appeared in The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books.

Venue

Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
610 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60605

Presenter

Chicago Humanities Festival
312.494.9509

Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
312-322-1700

Tickets

$10 in advance
$15 at the door

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