At Wit's End The Deadly Discourse on the Jewish Joke /

At Wit's End The Deadly Discourse on the Jewish Joke /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Kaplan, Louis, 1960- author.
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:New York : Fordham University Press, 2020.
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
2020.
Description:1 online resource (pages cm)
Language:English
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject:
Jews -- Humor.
Jewish wit and humor -- History and criticism.
Jews
Jewish wit and humor
Jews -- Humor
Humor
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13913939
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Other authors / contributors:Project Muse. distributor.
ISBN:9780823287581
0823287580
0823287556
9780823287550
0823287564
9780823287567
0823287572
9780823287574
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
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"--

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