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

by Louis Kaplan

Book Overview

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"