"Moments of mocking cynicism": gaining dignity through the humiliation of the humiliating

Abstract

An article about bringing to justice the comic in the narratives of the Jewish national movement or the movement of refuseniks, in the late USSR, about the consequences both on late oral and written sensations, and on synchronous movements of letters to the authorities and foreign samples. Comic episodes and ironic passages lead to frequent exacerbation and suppression of Jewish activists with power exclusive to both mass and indirect goals, and are seen as "weapons of the weak" in the minority's symbolic resistance to his regime

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