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Author Kaplan, Louis, 1960- author.

Title At Wit's End The Deadly Discourse on the Jewish Joke / Louis Kaplan
Edition First edition
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2020
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
2020

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Description 1 online resource (pages cm)
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents 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
Summary "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-Semitism, the Jewish question, and the Holocaust"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Jews -- Humor
Jewish wit and humor -- History and criticism
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
Jews
Jewish wit and humor
Jews -- Humor
Genre/Form Humor
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Project Muse. distributor.
LC no. 2019057420
ISBN 9780823287581
0823287580
0823287556
9780823287550
0823287564
9780823287567
0823287572
9780823287574