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"--

Table of 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