Vladimír Karbusický (9 April 1925, in
Velim – 23 May 2002, in
Hamburg
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) was a Czech musicologist and folklorist.
During World War II, he was abducted by the Germans for
forced labor
Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, violence including death, or other forms of ex ...
in
Hamburg
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. After returning to Prague, he worked for the
Ethnographic Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He collected
Jewish jokes, but was prevented from publishing them due to their often anti-authoritarian qualities which threatened the
Czechoslovak Communist Party
The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (Czech and Slovak: ''Komunistická strana Československa'', KSČ) was a communist and Marxist–Leninist political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992. It was a member of the Cominter ...
. After emigrating to West Germany in 1969, he published a book, ''Jewish Anecdotes from Prague'', in which he collected jokes about
Prague's Jewish population, which had nearly been wiped out during the Holocaust.
References
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Biography(in Czech)
1925 births
2002 deaths
Czech anti-communists
Czech exiles
Czechoslovak emigrants to Germany
Czech musicologists
Czech folklorists
People from Kolín District
Czechoslovak World War II forced labourers
20th-century musicologists
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