1st Edition
The Operated Jew and The Operated Goy Two Tales of Anti-Semitism
1. Preliminary Diagnosis. 2. The Operated Jew Oskar Panizza 3. The Operated Goy Mynona (Salomo Friedlaender) 4. Oskar Panizza: The Operated German as Operated Jew 5. Salomo Friedlaender: The Anonymous Jew as Laughing Philosopher.
Biography
Jack Zipes is Professor Emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. He has published widely on German Jewish topics in such books as Germans and Jews since the Holocaust (1986) and the Yale Companion of Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture, 1066-1966 (1997) with Sander Gilman. Most recently he has published Ernst Bloch, The Pugnacious Philosopher of Hope (2020) and Bambi. The Story of Life in the Forest (2022). He is currently working on an anthology of European Jewish tales from the Golden period (1870-1933) of Jewish literature.
‘Jack Zipes’s The Operated Jew and the Operated Goy: Two Tales of Anti-Semitism is a meaningfully powerful work of academia. . . . Zipes’ commentary is a fascinating exploration of the Jewish identity, structured through the lens of two very different men and the interplay between their insights.’
Rene Pintac-Divinagracia, The Journal of Folklore Research, February 2025
