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

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.

• | Author: Louis Kaplan
• | Publisher: Fordham University Press
• | Publication Date: May 05, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0823287564
• | ISBN-13: 9780823287567