As a result of urbanization, modernity and persecution, Jewish communities have disappeared from the countryside, swallowing up with them the Moshelish and the Judeo-Alsatian language, which is now on the verge of extinction. In his book “laughing to repair the world”, so much Bob the handyman rarely laughs, Freddy Raphaël, if, thanks to the humor of the Jews of Alsace and Lorraine, this sociologist, honorary professor at the University of Strasbourg, where he was director and then dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, tells you about some of these moshelish. He brings to life in his own way – at once erudite, intimate and light – this rich and tasty little world and reveals its meaning to us. Because the Judeo-Alsatian humor is more essential than ever, for the Jews, for the Alsatians, and for all the others. He shakes up good conscience, he is parodic and sarcastic, sometimes full of shamelessness, always tender and self-critical.
“Laughter to repair the world” was published by Editions de la Nués Bleue.
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