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Laughter After : Humor and the Holocaust.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (359 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780814344798
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Laughter AfterDDC classification:
  • 809.93358
LOC classification:
  • PN56.H55 .L384 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: To Tell Jokes After Auschwitz Is Barbaric, Isn't It? -- Aftermath -- Hitler Hanging on the Tree: Humor and Violence in Soviet Yiddish Folklore of World War II -- Too Soon? Yiddish Humor and the Holocaust in Postwar Poland -- Is It Still Funny?: Lin Jaldati and Yiddish Satire Before and After the Holocaust -- I. B. Singer's Art of Ghost Writing in Enemies, A Love Story -- "A Ring of Fire": Humor and the Holocaust -- Breaking Taboos -- Nebbishes, New Jews, and Humor: The Changing Image of American Jewish Masculinity Post-Holocaust -- "We're Safe Here, but Poland Is a State of Mind": The Exploitation of Holocaust Consciousness in Jewish Fiction and Memoirs -- "This Way to the Ovens, Señoras y Señores": Holocaust Cartoons in Latin America -- The Image of Anne Frank: From Universal Hero to Comic Figure -- "I'm Allowed, I'm a Jew": Oliver Polak and Jewish Humor in Contemporary Germany After the Holocaust -- "The Holocaust Was the Worst": Remembering the Holocaust Through Third-Generation Jokes -- "Yad Vashem, You So Fine!": The Place of the Shoah in Contemporary Israeli and American Comedy -- "Did You Ever See Our Show?": Holocaust Comedy in American Sitcoms -- The Last Laugh? -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: A global tour of Jewish humor since the Holocaust.
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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: To Tell Jokes After Auschwitz Is Barbaric, Isn't It? -- Aftermath -- Hitler Hanging on the Tree: Humor and Violence in Soviet Yiddish Folklore of World War II -- Too Soon? Yiddish Humor and the Holocaust in Postwar Poland -- Is It Still Funny?: Lin Jaldati and Yiddish Satire Before and After the Holocaust -- I. B. Singer's Art of Ghost Writing in Enemies, A Love Story -- "A Ring of Fire": Humor and the Holocaust -- Breaking Taboos -- Nebbishes, New Jews, and Humor: The Changing Image of American Jewish Masculinity Post-Holocaust -- "We're Safe Here, but Poland Is a State of Mind": The Exploitation of Holocaust Consciousness in Jewish Fiction and Memoirs -- "This Way to the Ovens, Señoras y Señores": Holocaust Cartoons in Latin America -- The Image of Anne Frank: From Universal Hero to Comic Figure -- "I'm Allowed, I'm a Jew": Oliver Polak and Jewish Humor in Contemporary Germany After the Holocaust -- "The Holocaust Was the Worst": Remembering the Holocaust Through Third-Generation Jokes -- "Yad Vashem, You So Fine!": The Place of the Shoah in Contemporary Israeli and American Comedy -- "Did You Ever See Our Show?": Holocaust Comedy in American Sitcoms -- The Last Laugh? -- Contributors -- Index.

A global tour of Jewish humor since the Holocaust.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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