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.

Will appeal to those with an interest in learning about historical precedents for our current moment, when potentially offensive humor coupled with a toxic political climate and xenophobia can have deadly consequences.