Auschwitz Jewish jokes
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retold in 3 talks
In Auschwitz there circulated a whole series of Jewish jokes about Auschwitz itself; when things are truly desperate and tragic, only comedy can do the work, because the dignified serious role fails and humor is needed to survive.
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As told 3
“in Auschwitz, Auschwitz, there was a whole series of Jewish jokes about it.”1:35 Slavoj Zizek: Will today’s chaos lead to change for the better? | The Streampub. 2022-01-05 · 25:20
“'Listen, don't be sad. You were not there of course, you cannot understand our joke.'”
“don't worry our Lord, of course you cannot understand it because you were not there”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
contents · one story, 2 jobsuses
ontological incompleteness
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comedy as the only honest form for extreme horror
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Its cast and sources
populated by
Matthew Flisfeder1Carl Linnaeus1Alexei Yurchak1Levi Bryant1Terrence Deacon1Evald Ilyenkov1Günther Anders1Charles Darwin1
alongside works
Every retelling 3
1:35 Slavoj Zizek: Will today’s chaos lead to change for the better? | The Streampub. 2022-01-05 · 25:20
In Auschwitz there circulated a whole series of Jewish jokes about Auschwitz itself; when things are truly desperate and tragic, only comedy can do the work, because the dignified serious role fails and humor is needed to survive., illustrating the comic twist as survival,seriousness failing in desperate times
Two Jewish survivors in Paradise swap jokes about their deaths; God overhears and says he doesn't get it. One of them puts an arm around God and says: 'Don't be sad, you were not there, of course you can't understand our joke.' The joke's point is the incompleteness of God: the very exclusion of God from Auschwitz bonds the victims to God through shared abandonment., illustrating ontological incompleteness of God,divine abandonment,theological joke
Two Jews in paradise joke about their absurd deaths at Auschwitz; God passes by and says he doesn't understand how they can laugh. One embraces him and says: 'Don't worry, of course you cannot understand, you were not there.' What God cannot grasp is not suffering but the freedom of making jokes about it., illustrating virtual dimension of freedom,absentia,resilience of the subject