Kaplan At Wit's End

The Deadly Discourse on the Jewish Joke
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8758-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaplan, Louis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Humor
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Joke and Its Questions 1

1 Secondary Moves: Arthur Trebitsch and the Jewish Joke 24

2 Of Caricatures, Jokes, and Anti- Semitism: The Case of Eduard Fuchs 60

3 Of Watchmen and Comedians: Jewish Jokes and Free Speech in Weimar Germany 95

4 “Far from where?”: Erich Kahler and the Jewish Joke of Exile 119

5 Of Jokes and Propaganda: The Mobilization of the Jewish Joke in the Nazi Era 153

6 Jewish Joke Reparations and Mourning in Post- Holocaust Germany 182

Conclusion: Final Thoughts and Last Laughs 219

Afterword: The Jewish Joke in Trump’s America 224

Acknowledgments 231

Notes 235

Index 299

Über Autor(innen)

Kaplan Louis:
Louis Kaplan is professor of Visual Studies and Art History and an affiliated faculty member at the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Photography and Humour; The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer; American Exposures: Photography and Community in the Twentieth Century; and László Moholy- Nagy: Biographical Writings.Louis Kaplan is professor of Visual Studies and Art History and an affiliated faculty member at the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Photography and Humour; The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer; American Exposures: Photography and Community in the Twentieth Century; and László Moholy- Nagy: Biographical Writings.