Gebundenes Buch

Laughter After

Humor and the Holocaust

Herausgeber: Slucki, David; Finder, Gabriel N; Patt, Avinoam

Beschreibung

Argues that humour performs political, cultural, and social functions in the wake of horror. David Slucki, Gabriel Finder and Avinoam Patt have assembled an impressive list of contributors who examine what is at stake in deploying humor in representing the Holocaust. Namely, what are the boundaries?

Autor

David Sluckiis assistant professor in the Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program at the College of Charleston and author of Sing This at My Funeral: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons (Wayne State University Press, 2019). Gabriel N. Finder is professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and director of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Virginia and co-editor of Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust (Wayne State University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2015); and currently writing a book on Polish Jewish honor courts. Avinoam Patt is the Doris and Simon Konover Professor of Judaic Studies and director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at the University of Connecticut; and co-editor of The JDC at 100: A Century of Humanitarianism (Wayne State University Press, 2019); and is currently writing a new book on the early postwar memory of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wayne State University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9780814347386
• ISBN-10: 081434738X
• Artikelnr.: 60373174