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Considering the jokes about the Holocaust, one has to distinguish the "gallows humor", i.e., the humor of the victims, from "sick humor" of the oppressors or haters of the particular social group. [6] The "gallows humor" is a coping mechanism, [7] while "sick humor" is an instrument of aggression. [6]
One of my favorite examples to teach is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The original attempt was a chaotic series of failures, almost like a comedy of errors,” she explains. #4
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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum quotes the following text as one of the many poetic versions of the speech: [2] [3] First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist.
Sholem Aleichem, the renowned 19th-century Yiddish author whose short stories inspired “Fiddler on The Roof,” Portnoy recalled, “always said that Jewish humor is the phenomenon of laughter ...
A Scrap of Time and Other Stories, written by Ida Fink, is a collection of fictional short stories relating various characters to the Jewish experience of the Holocaust. [1] Originally written in Polish, it was translated by Madeline Levine and Francine Prose .