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Sources for further sources edit
- "Taboo humor and The Holocaust"
- Viano, Maurizio (1999) ‘Life is Beautiful: reception, allegory and Holocaust laughter’ Annali d’Italianistica, no. 17, pp 155-173
- Chaya Ostrower, Humor as a Defense Mechanism in the Holocaust
- "Judy Gold talks Holocaust jokes, Louie C.K., and sexism".
Did you know nomination edit
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 01:23, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
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- ... that humor in Nazi camps was a survival and defense mechanism? Source: Humor as a Defense Mechanism during the Holocaust, Dr Chaya Ostrower; dr. Ostrower speaks about her book Chaya Ostrower, ההומור כמנגנון הגנה בשואה / ha-Humor ke-mangenon haganah ba-Shoʼah [Humor as a Defense Mechanism in the Holocaust], 2000, Ph.D., Faculty of Humanities, University of Tel Aviv; Chaya Ostrower, הומור כמנגנון הגנה בשואה ["Humor as a defense mechanism in the Holocaust"]
5x expanded by Loew Galitz (talk). Self-nominated at 22:56, 21 February 2022 (UTC).
Interesting aspects, on fine sources, foreign and offline sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. I like the hook. Your first DYK, right? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:15, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
- I don't recall any other. I did write a few articles I thought curious, such as "On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi!", but this one I thought important as well, and I hope that DYK will attract more editors, because I merely scraped the surface. Loew Galitz (talk) 22:23, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
Page moving edit
Please do not move the article without discussion. This subject is not "Humor based on Holocaust". Loew Galitz (talk) 18:57, 4 July 2022 (UTC)