Inciting laughter : : the development of "Jewish humor" in 19th century German culture / / Jefferson S. Chase.

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, New York : : Walter de Gruyter,, 2000.
Year of Publication:2000
Language:English
Series:European cultures ; v. 12
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Physical Description:1 online resource (340 pages)
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Other title:Vicious Circles: Judenwitz as Stereotype and Strategy
Humor as crux of majority/minority identity
Judenwitz as Sign of German Particularity
Pamphlet War: Moritz Gottlieb Saphir in Berlin 1826-30
Saphir's arrival and the beginning of the conflict
Humor as battleground
Legacy of the pamphlet war
Handle and The Blade: Ludwig Borne's Serious Humor
Borne's attitudes toward Jewishness and humor
Borne as arts critic
Affinities between Borne and Menzel
Borne's "direct" political writings
Anti-Judenwitz backlash
Menzel as Borne apologist
Borne's response
Borne-Menzel estrangement
Borne's final shift
Borne's individual reception
"Who Gets the Job Now?" Heinrich Heine and the J. G. Cotta Publishing House
Heine's early contact with Cotta
Judenwitz and literary talent
Baths of Lucca
Backlash against The Baths of Lucca and its influence on Cotta
Atta Troll
Cotta's neglect and Heine's individual reception
Reading for the Plot: Judenwitz in and as Literary History
Core myth of German literary history
Adaptation of the myth over time
Continuity and caesura
Translations
Moritz Gottlieb Saphir --
From: The Killed-Off Yet Still Alive and Kicking M. G. Saphir, or: Thirteen Dramatic Poets and a Magician Against One Lone Editor
From: Come Here! or: Dear Public, Look and Trust Whom You Please
On Witz
"On Borne"
Ludwig Borne --
Jews in Frankfurt am Main
Theater Reviews
From: Monograph of the German Post Snail: A Contribution to the Natural History of Mollusks and Testaceans
From: Letters from Paris
From: Menzel, the Frenchmen's Scourge
Heinrich Heine --
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-325) and index.
ISBN:9783110162998
9783110813838
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Jefferson S. Chase.