Vladimír Karbusický (9 April 1925, in Velim – 23 May 2002, in

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) was a Czech musicologist and folklorist. During World War II, he was abducted by the Germans for

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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

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. 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.

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(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 {{CzechRepublic-bio-stub