At Wit's End : : The Deadly Discourse on the Jewish Joke / / Louis Kaplan.
A scholarly and thought-provoking work that places Jewish humor at the center of a discourse about Jewish and German relations through most of the twentieth century.At Wit’s End explores the fascinating discourse on Jewish wit in the twentieth century when the Jewish joke became the subject of serio...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 25 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The Joke and Its Questions
- 1. Secondary Moves: Arthur Trebitsch and the Jewish Joke
- 2. Of Caricatures, Jokes, and Anti- Semitism: The Case of Eduard Fuchs
- 3. Of Watchmen and Comedians: Jewish Jokes and Free Speech in Weimar Germany
- 4. “Far from where?”: Erich Kahler and the Jewish Joke of Exile
- 5. Of Jokes and Propaganda: The Mobilization of the Jewish Joke in the Nazi Era
- 6. Jewish Joke Reparations and Mourning in Post- Holocaust Germany
- Conclusion: Final Thoughts and Last Laughs
- Afterword: The Jewish Joke in Trump’s America
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index