Louis Kaplan, Jewish Photographic Humor in Dark Times: Visual First Responders to the Third Reich

Frankely Judaic: Explorations in Jewish Studies

Content provided by Jewish Studies at the University of Michigan and University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Jewish Studies at the University of Michigan and University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.

1+ y ago 20:47

MP3•Episode home

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.

64 episodes

#Society & Culture #Jewish Studies at the University of Michigan #University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies #Podcasting Education