Vladimír Karbusický
Vladimír Karbusický (9 April 1925, in Velim – 23 May 2002, in Hamburg) was a Czech musicologist and folklorist.[1]
During World War II, he was abducted by the Germans for forced labor in Hamburg. After returning to Prague, he worked for the . He collected Jewish jokes, but was prevented from publishing them due to their often anti-authoritarian qualities which threatened the Czechoslovak Communist Party. After emigrating to West Germany in 1969, he published a book, Jewish Anecdotes from Prague, in which he collected jokes about Prague's Jewish population, which had nearly been wiped out during the Holocaust.[2]
References[]
- ^ "Karbusický, Vladimír". Český hudební slovník. Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
- ^ Wisse, Ruth R. (2013). No Joke: Making Jewish Humor. Princeton University Press. pp. 222–225. ISBN 9781400846344.
External links[]
- Biography (in Czech)
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