Chapter 1 Vicious Circles: Judenwitz as Stereotype and Strategy 1
Humor as crux of majority/minority identity 5
Judenwitz as Sign of German Particularity 11
Chapter 2 Pamphlet War: Moritz Gottlieb Saphir in Berlin 1826-30 20
Saphir's arrival and the beginning of the conflict 23
Humor as battleground 37
Legacy of the pamphlet war 61
Chapter 3 Handle and The Blade: Ludwig Borne's Serious Humor 64
Borne's attitudes toward Jewishness and humor 69
Borne as arts critic 81
Affinities between Borne and Menzel 91
Borne's "direct" political writings 99
Anti-Judenwitz backlash 104
Menzel as Borne apologist 114
Borne's response 117
Borne-Menzel estrangement 123
Borne's final shift 133
Borne's individual reception 136
Chapter 4 "Who Gets the Job Now?" Heinrich Heine and the J. G. Cotta Publishing House 139
Heine's early contact with Cotta 144
Judenwitz and literary talent 149
Baths of Lucca 157
Backlash against The Baths of Lucca and its influence on Cotta 173
Atta Troll 180
Cotta's neglect and Heine's individual reception 189
Chapter 5 Reading for the Plot: Judenwitz in and as Literary History 193
Core myth of German literary history 195
Adaptation of the myth over time 207
Continuity and caesura 222
Translations 229
Moritz Gottlieb Saphir
From: The Killed-Off Yet Still Alive and Kicking M. G. Saphir, or: Thirteen Dramatic Poets and a Magician Against One Lone Editor 232
From: Come Here! or: Dear Public, Look and Trust Whom You Please 235
On Witz 238
"On Borne" 241
Ludwig Borne
Jews in Frankfurt am Main 244
Theater Reviews 247
From: Monograph of the German Post Snail: A Contribution to the Natural History of Mollusks and Testaceans 253
From: Letters from Paris 259
From: Menzel, the Frenchmen's Scourge 262
Heinrich Heine
Baths of Lucca 266.