Louis Kaplan is Professor of Visual Studies and affiliated faculty member at the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. His most recent book is Photography and Humour (Reaktion, 2017). He began this project as a post-doctoral fellow at the Franz Rosenzweig Center for Geman-Jewish Cultural History and Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and he completed it while a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Jewish History in New York two decades later.