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

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

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Chase, Jefferson S.
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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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Vicious Circles: Judenwitz as Stereotype and Strategy 1
  • Humor as crux of majority/minority identity 5
  • Judenwitz as Sign of German Particularity 11
  • Chapter 2 Pamphlet War: Moritz Gottlieb Saphir in Berlin 1826-30 20
  • Saphir's arrival and the beginning of the conflict 23
  • Humor as battleground 37
  • Legacy of the pamphlet war 61
  • Chapter 3 Handle and The Blade: Ludwig Borne's Serious Humor 64
  • Borne's attitudes toward Jewishness and humor 69
  • Borne as arts critic 81
  • Affinities between Borne and Menzel 91
  • Borne's "direct" political writings 99
  • Anti-Judenwitz backlash 104
  • Menzel as Borne apologist 114
  • Borne's response 117
  • Borne-Menzel estrangement 123
  • Borne's final shift 133
  • Borne's individual reception 136
  • Chapter 4 "Who Gets the Job Now?" Heinrich Heine and the J. G. Cotta Publishing House 139
  • Heine's early contact with Cotta 144
  • Judenwitz and literary talent 149
  • Baths of Lucca 157
  • Backlash against The Baths of Lucca and its influence on Cotta 173
  • Atta Troll 180
  • Cotta's neglect and Heine's individual reception 189
  • Chapter 5 Reading for the Plot: Judenwitz in and as Literary History 193
  • Core myth of German literary history 195
  • Adaptation of the myth over time 207
  • Continuity and caesura 222
  • Translations 229
  • 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 232
  • From: Come Here! or: Dear Public, Look and Trust Whom You Please 235
  • On Witz 238
  • "On Borne" 241
  • Ludwig Borne
  • Jews in Frankfurt am Main 244
  • Theater Reviews 247
  • From: Monograph of the German Post Snail: A Contribution to the Natural History of Mollusks and Testaceans 253
  • From: Letters from Paris 259
  • From: Menzel, the Frenchmen's Scourge 262
  • Heinrich Heine
  • Baths of Lucca 266.

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