@article{9556fd87-f29a-4a7c-b442-fb01d47d79ad,
author = {Brygida Gasztold},
title = {Laughter Through Tears: The Wise Men of Chelm and
	the Holocaust in Nathan Englander's Story “The Tumblers”},
journal = {Studia Judaica},
volume = {2013},
number = {Nr 2 (32)},
year = {2013},
issn = {1506-9729},
pages = {171-186},keywords = {},
abstract = {“The Tumblers” is one of the stories from Nathan Englander’s debut collection of short fiction entitled For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (1999). In this story a group of orthodox Jews from the Chelm ghetto tries to impersonate a troupe of acrobats in order to escape transportation to the death camps. The humorous stories of the Sages/Fools of Chelm, popularized for a wider international audience by Isaac Bashevis Singer, are a vital part of Yiddish folklore. Englander’s story delivers a fresh perspective on the lost world of the Eastern European shtetl by juxtaposing comedy with the horrors of the Holocaust in an unlikely combination of farce, irony, and profundity.},
doi = {},
url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-judaica/article/laughter-through-tears-the-wise-men-of-chelm-and-the-holocaust-in-nathan-englanders-story-the-tumblers}
}