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

by Louis Kaplan

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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-Semitism, the Jewish question, and the Holocaust.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0823287564

ISBN13:9780823287567

Release Date:May 2020

Publisher:Fordham University Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Humor Humor & Entertainment Humorous Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences

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