Chapter 1. Vicious Circles: Judenwitz As Stereotype And Strategy -- Humor As Crux Of Majority/Minority Identity -- Judenwitz As Sign Of German Particularity -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2. The Pamphlet War: Moritz Gottlieb Saphir In Berlin 1826-30 -- Saphir'S Arrival And The Beginning Of The Conflict -- Humor As Battleground -- The Legacy Of The Pamphlet War -- Chapter 3. The Handle And The Blade: Ludwig Börne'S Serious Humor -- Börne'S Attitudes Toward Jewishness And Humor -- Börne As Arts Critic -- Affinities Between Börne And Menzel -- Börne'S "Direct" Political Writings -- The Anti-Judenwitz Backlash -- Menzel As Börne Apologist -- Börne'S Response -- The Börne-Menzel Estrangement -- Börne'S Final Shift -- Börne'S Individual Reception -- Chapter 4. "Who Gets The Job Now?" Heinrich Heine And The J. G. Cotta Publishing House -- Heine'S Early Contact With Cotta -- Judenwitz And Literary Talent -- The Baths Of Lucca -- The Backlash Against The Baths Of Lucca And Its Influence On Cotta -- Atta Troll -- Cotta'S Neglect And Heine'S Individual Reception -- Chapter 5. Reading For The Plot: Judenwitz In And As Literary History -- The Core Myth Of German Literary History -- The Adaptation Of The Myth Over Time -- Continuity And Caesura -- Conclusion -- Translatons -- Introduction -- From: The Killed-Off Yet Still Alive And Kicking M. G. Saphir, Or: Thirteen Dramatic Poets And A Magician Against One Lone Editor -- From: Come Here! Or: Dear Public, Look And Trust Whom You Please -- On Witz -- "On Börne" -- The Jews In Frankfurt Am Main -- Theater Reviews -- From: Monograph Of The German Post Snail: A Contribution To The Natural History Of Mollusks And Testaceans -- From: Letters From Paris -- From: Menzel, The Frenchmen'S Scourge -- The Baths Of Lucca -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index.