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Louis Kaplan, Jewish Photographic Humor in Dark Times: Visual First Responders to the Third Reich
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The rise of the Nazis and their antisemitic agenda during the early 1930s was the beginning of the darkest era of modern Jewish history. For obvious reasons, we tend to not make jokes about it. And yet, at the time, some Jewish writers and artists, including photographers, did exactly that. In this episode, Louis Kaplan, a professor of visual studies and art history at the University of Toronto, and a fellow at the Frankel Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at the University of Michigan, explores the lives and work of four Jewish photographers–Roman Vishniac, Erwin Blumfeld, Grete Stern, and John Heartfield–who use visual wit, irony, and satire to create photos that resisted and satirized the antisemitic bluster and menace of the Nazi regime.
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The rise of the Nazis and their antisemitic agenda during the early 1930s was the beginning of the darkest era of modern Jewish history. For obvious reasons, we tend to not make jokes about it. And yet, at the time, some Jewish writers and artists, including photographers, did exactly that. In this episode, Louis Kaplan, a professor of visual studies and art history at the University of Toronto, and a fellow at the Frankel Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at the University of Michigan, explores the lives and work of four Jewish photographers–Roman Vishniac, Erwin Blumfeld, Grete Stern, and John Heartfield–who use visual wit, irony, and satire to create photos that resisted and satirized the antisemitic bluster and menace of the Nazi regime.
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