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Jun 22, 2020
Laughter After
Humor and the Holocaust
Summary
In Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust (Wayne State University Press, 2020), Co-editors David Slucki, Loti Smorgon Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life and Culture at the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation at Monash University, Gabriel N. Finder, professor in the department of German Languages and Literatures and former director of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Virginia and Avinoam Patt, 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, have assembled an impressive list of contributors who examine what is at stake in deploying humor in representing the Holocaust.
This book comes at an important moment in the trajectory of Holocaust memory. As the generation of survivors continues to dwindle, there is great concern among scholars and community leaders about how memories and lessons of the Holocaust will be passed to future generations.
Without survivors to tell their stories, to serve as constant reminders of what they experienced, how will future generations understand and relate to the Shoah?
This book seeks to uncover how and why such humor is deployed, and what the factors are that shape its production and reception.
Dr. Max Kaiser teaches at the University of Melbourne. He can be reached at kaiserm@unimelb.edu.au
Dr. Max Kaiser teaches at the University of Melbourne. He can be reached at kaiserm@unimelb.edu.au
