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"JEWISH MINIATURES"

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 JEWISH MINIATURES
Collection of hundreds of jokes which would today be considered anti-Semitic , collected in the book Jewish Miniatures, by Paul Nikolaus, (Leipzig: Paul Steegemann), 1924. 176pp. 8vo, illustrated. The joke book, one of a series that included jokes about northern Germans, Rhinelanders, Saxons, etc. contains nothing threatening or grossly insulting but are rather corny and harmless. Nevertheless, the illustrations are typical of those later used to insult and denigrate Jews. In the afterword, the author comments that after the first edition was published, he was accused of being anti-Semitic, but essentially claims that he was an "equal opportunity" jokester, writing the same type of jokes about Swedes, other Germans, and so on. Interesting.