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

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
Published: 05/05/2020
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780823287567

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2020

About the Author
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.