04631nam 2200817 450 991082611720332120230422051040.03-11-081383-110.1515/9783110813838(CKB)2550000001178636(OCoLC)868974320(CaPaEBR)ebrary10789764(SSID)ssj0001122741(PQKBManifestationID)11650706(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001122741(PQKBWorkID)11070322(PQKB)11148212(MiAaPQ)EBC3044730(DE-B1597)42662(OCoLC)1013939126(OCoLC)1037921750(OCoLC)1041992519(OCoLC)1043628334(OCoLC)853251600(DE-B1597)9783110813838(Au-PeEL)EBL3044730(CaPaEBR)ebr10789764(CaONFJC)MIL558824(OCoLC)922947968(EXLCZ)99255000000117863619991115d2000 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrInciting laughter the development of "Jewish humor" in 19th century German culture /Jefferson S. ChaseReprint 2012Berlin ;New York :Walter de Gruyter,2000.1 online resource (340 p.) European Cultures ;12European cultures ;v. 12Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph3-11-016299-7 1-306-27573-3 Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-325) and index.Chapter 1Vicious Circles: Judenwitz as Stereotype and Strategy1 --Humor as crux of majority/minority identity5 --Judenwitz as Sign of German Particularity11 --Chapter 2Pamphlet War: Moritz Gottlieb Saphir in Berlin 1826-3020 --Saphir's arrival and the beginning of the conflict23 --Humor as battleground37 --Legacy of the pamphlet war61 --Chapter 3Handle and The Blade: Ludwig Borne's Serious Humor64 --Borne's attitudes toward Jewishness and humor69 --Borne as arts critic81 --Affinities between Borne and Menzel91 --Borne's "direct" political writings99 --Anti-Judenwitz backlash104 --Menzel as Borne apologist114 --Borne's response117 --Borne-Menzel estrangement123 --Borne's final shift133 --Borne's individual reception136 --Chapter 4"Who Gets the Job Now?" Heinrich Heine and the J. G. Cotta Publishing House139 --Heine's early contact with Cotta144 --Judenwitz and literary talent149 --Baths of Lucca157 --Backlash against The Baths of Lucca and its influence on Cotta173 --Atta Troll180 --Cotta's neglect and Heine's individual reception189 --Chapter 5Reading for the Plot: Judenwitz in and as Literary History193 --Core myth of German literary history195 --Adaptation of the myth over time207 --Continuity and caesura222 --Translations229 --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 Editor232 --From: Come Here! or: Dear Public, Look and Trust Whom You Please235 --On Witz238 --"On Borne"241 --Ludwig Borne --Jews in Frankfurt am Main244 --Theater Reviews247 --From: Monograph of the German Post Snail: A Contribution to the Natural History of Mollusks and Testaceans253 --From: Letters from Paris259 --From: Menzel, the Frenchmen's Scourge262 --Heinrich Heine --Baths of Lucca266.German literatureJewish authorsTranslations into EnglishGerman literatureJewish authorsHistory and criticismGerman literature19th centuryHistory and criticismGerman wit and humorJewish wit and humorJewsGermanyIntellectual lifeJudaism and literatureGermanyGerman literatureJewish authorsGerman literatureJewish authorsHistory and criticism.German literatureHistory and criticism.German wit and humor.Jewish wit and humor.JewsIntellectual life.Judaism and literature830.9/8924GL 1411rvkChase Jefferson S1201753MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826117203321Inciting laughter3988547UNINA