Author: 
Klaus Hödl
Reviewer: 
Alexander Vari

Vari on Hakkarainen, 'Comical Modernity: Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna' and Hödl, 'Entangled Entertainers: Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna'

Heidi Hakkarainen. Comical Modernity: Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna. Austrian and Habsburg Studies Series. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. Illustrations. viii + 279 pp. $135.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78920-273-1Klaus Hödl. Entangled Entertainers: Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna.

Author: 
Jeremy Dauber
Reviewer: 
Jennifer Caplan

Caplan on Dauber, 'Jewish Comedy: A Serious History'

Jeremy Dauber. Jewish Comedy: A Serious History. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2017. 384 pp. $28.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-393-24787-9.

Reviewed by Jennifer Caplan (Towson University) Published on H-Judaic (September, 2018) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow (University of South Carolina)

Author: 
Patrick Merziger
Reviewer: 
Geoffrey J. Giles

Giles on Merziger, 'Nationalsozialistische Satire und "Deutscher Humor": Politische Bedeutung und Öffentlichkeit populärer Unterhaltung 1931-1945'

Patrick Merziger. Nationalsozialistische Satire und "Deutscher Humor": Politische Bedeutung und Öffentlichkeit populärer Unterhaltung 1931-1945. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. 407 pp. $87.00 (paper), ISBN 978-3-515-09355-2.

Reviewed by Geoffrey J. Giles (University of Florida) Published on H-German (December, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross

Author: 
Joseph Boskin
Reviewer: 
Javan D. Frazier

Frazier on Boskin, 'Corporal Boskin's Cold Cold War: A Comical Journey'

Joseph Boskin. Corporal Boskin's Cold Cold War: A Comical Journey. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011. 224 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8156-0964-3.

Reviewed by Javan D. Frazier (Middle Georgia College) Published on H-War (May, 2013) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

Author: 
F. K. M. Hillenbrand
Reviewer: 
John Perkins

Perkins on Hillenbrand, 'Underground Humour in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945'

F. K. M. Hillenbrand. Underground Humour in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. xviii + 297 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-09785-7.

Reviewed by John Perkins (University of New South Wales) Published on H-German (May, 1997)

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