TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chase,Jefferson S.
TI  - Inciting laughter: the development of "Jewish humor" in 19th century German culture 
SN  - 9783110813838 (ebook)
AV  - PT169 .C45 2000eb
U1  - 830.9/8924 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Berlin, New York
PB  - Walter de Gruyter
KW  - Börne, Ludwig,
KW  - Heine, Heinrich,
KW  - Saphir, Moritz Gottlieb,
KW  - German literature
KW  - Jewish authors
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 19th century
KW  - German wit and humor
KW  - Jewish wit and humor
KW  - Jews
KW  - Germany
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Judaism and literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-325) and index; Chapter 1; Vicious Circles: Judenwitz as Stereotype and Strategy; 1 --; Humor as crux of majority/minority identity; 5 --; Judenwitz as Sign of German Particularity; 11 --; Chapter 2; Pamphlet War: Moritz Gottlieb Saphir in Berlin 1826-30; 20 --; Saphir's arrival and the beginning of the conflict; 23 --; Humor as battleground; 37 --; Legacy of the pamphlet war; 61 --; Chapter 3; Handle and The Blade: Ludwig Borne's Serious Humor; 64 --; Borne's attitudes toward Jewishness and humor; 69 --; Borne as arts critic; 81 --; Affinities between Borne and Menzel; 91 --; Borne's "direct" political writings; 99 --; Anti-Judenwitz backlash; 104 --; Menzel as Borne apologist; 114 --; Borne's response; 117 --; Borne-Menzel estrangement; 123 --; Borne's final shift; 133 --; Borne's individual reception; 136 --; Chapter 4; "Who Gets the Job Now?" Heinrich Heine and the J. G. Cotta Publishing House; 139 --; Heine's early contact with Cotta; 144 --; Judenwitz and literary talent; 149 --; Baths of Lucca; 157 --; Backlash against The Baths of Lucca and its influence on Cotta; 173 --; Atta Troll; 180 --; Cotta's neglect and Heine's individual reception; 189 --; Chapter 5; Reading for the Plot: Judenwitz in and as Literary History; 193 --; Core myth of German literary history; 195 --; Adaptation of the myth over time; 207 --; Continuity and caesura; 222 --; Translations; 229 --; Moritz Gottlieb Saphir --; From: The Killed-Off Yet Still Alive and Kicking M. G. Saphir, or: Thirteen Dramatic Poets and a Magician Against One Lone Editor; 232 --; From: Come Here! or: Dear Public, Look and Trust Whom You Please; 235 --; On Witz; 238 --; "On Borne"; 241 --; Ludwig Borne --; Jews in Frankfurt am Main; 244 --; Theater Reviews; 247 --; From: Monograph of the German Post Snail: A Contribution to the Natural History of Mollusks and Testaceans; 253 --; From: Letters from Paris; 259 --; From: Menzel, the Frenchmen's Scourge; 262 --; Heinrich Heine --; Baths of Lucca; 266
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