Comedy and the Constitution: The Legacy of Lenny Bruce
Day Two: October 28, 2016
Session 4: Jewish Humor and the Holocaust
Avinoam Patt, Phillip D. Feltman Professor of Modern Jewish History at the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, director of the Museum of Jewish Civilization, University of Hartford. Paper title: “Sitting Shiva for Hitler: Jewish Humor in Postwar Germany”
Gabriel Finder, associate professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director of Jewish Studies, University of Virginia. Paper title: “An Irony of History: Ephraim Kishon’s German Triumph”
David Slucki, assistant professor of Jewish studies, College of Charleston. Paper title: “Auschwitz? You’ll Be Saying Wowschitz”
Moderated by Joseph Dorinson, professor of history, Long Island University
