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"This book explores the fascinating discourse on Jewish wit in the twentieth century when the Jewish joke became the subject of serious humanistic inquiry and inserted itself into the cultural and political debates among Germans and Jews against the ideologically-charged backdrop of anti-Semiti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kaplan, Louis, 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2020.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Jews > Humor.
Jewish wit and humor > History and criticism.
Juifs > Humour.
Humour juif > Histoire et critique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
Jews
Jewish wit and humor
Jews > Humor
Anti-Semitism.
Ethnic and racial humor.
Holocaust.
Jewish jokes.
Jewish self-irony.
Jewish wit.
National Socialism (Nazis).
Psychoanalysis.
Weimar culture.
modern German-Jewish intellectual history.
Humor
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • 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

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