Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust, Hardcover - David Slucki

Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust argues that humor performs political, cultural, and social functions in the wake of horror. Co-editors Davi...

Argues that humour performs political, cultural, and social functions in the wake of horror. David Slucki, Gabriel Finder and Avinoam Patt have ass...

Reducere. -Between Heaven and Mirth will make any reader smile. . . . Father Martin reminds us that happiness is the good God's own goal for us.- --Timothy M...

Reducere. DescriptionBased on recently discovered documents, The Jews Should Keep Quiet reassesses the hows and whys behind the Franklin D. Roosevelt adminis...

Reducere. A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrumsWhy the Germans? Why t...

Grzegorz Niziolek's The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust is a pioneering analysis of the impact and legacy of the Holocaust on Polish theatre and so...

Reducere. Love cryptograms? Tickle your funny bone with this collection of over 350 quotes from comedians, past and present. Cryptograms are presented in a l...

Reducere. In this gentle, poetic young graphic novel, Dounia, a grandmother, tells her granddaughter the story even her son has never heard: how, as a young ...

Reducere. Grandparents have a hidden superpower-PLAYFULNESS! The power of play creates memories that will be forever etched in the mind of a child. It tickle...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: John MorreallThis book assesses the adequacy of the traditional theories of laughter and humor, suggests revised theories, ...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Few topics in modern history draw the attention that the Holocaust does. The Shoah has become synonymous with unspeakable atrocity and unbearable s...

Reducere. Many of us belong to communities that have been scarred by terrible calamities. And many of us come from families that have suffered grievous losse...

Reducere. In this compelling book, Lithuanian author Ruta Vanagaite holds an extended conversation with noted historian Christoph Dieckmann. His exploration ...

Reducere. The memoir of Elli Friedmann, who was 13 years old in March 1944 when the Nazis invaded Hungary. She recounts her experience in Auschwitz concentra...

Reducere. In a stirring chronicle, Doreen Rappaport brings to light the courage of countless Jews who organized to sabotage the Nazis and help other Jews dur...

Reducere. Description"There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer." H di Fried was nineteen when ...

Since antiquity, European Jewish diaspora communities have used formal appeals to secular and religious authorities to secure favors or protection....

One summer's night in 1946, over 1, 000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidd...

Reducere. The remarkable story of how a consul and his allies helped save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in one of the greatest rescue operations of th...

The idea which I shall present here came to me more or less out of the blue. I was on a train some fives years ago, on my way to spend a day at Hea...

Reducere. A young Jewish boy is given a star to wear. At first he is proud of the decoration, but soon finds the star overshadowing him--no one sees the boy,...

Nathan A. Kurz charts the fraught relationship between Jewish internationalism and international rights protection in the second half of the twenti...

Reducere. Side A1. Hard times2. Rose-colored boy3. Told you so4. Forgiveness5. Fake happy6. 26Side B1. Pool2. Grudges3. Caught in the middle4. Idle worship5....

Reducere. The Holocaust has long seemed incomprehensible, a monumental crime that beggars our powers of description and explanation. Historians have probed t...

Reducere. Syrian immigrant Moussa Abadi was only 33, and his future wife, Odette Rosenstock, 28, when they found themselves trapped in Nazi-occupied France. ...

A pair of silver Regency candlesticks. Pieces of well-worn family jewelry. More than a thousand documents, letters, and photographs Lotte Meyerhoff...

Louis Lowy (1920 1991), an international social worker and gerontologist, rarely spoke publicly about the Holocaust. During the last months of his ...

Reducere. Thoroughly researched, this study highlights the historical scholarship that is one of the lasting legacies of interwar Polish Jewry and analyses i...

Reducere. Yankel's simple life is upended when the Nazis invade Romania in this biographical novel. As the fascist dictator Ion Antonescu imposes increasingl...

Reducere. Yellow Star, Red Star asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled--ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated--throughout Eastern Europ...

Reducere. How does one embrace life after losing a beloved spouse? Is it possible for a widowed person to live well, laugh more, and even find love again? Ma...

DescriptionIn 1978, Jakub Slucki passed away peacefully in his sleep at the age of seventy-seven. A Holocaust survivor whose first wife and two son...

Tells the story of the author's father and grandfather, and the grave legacy that they each passed on to him. This is a story about the Holocaust a...