Nexus 1 (eBook, PDF)

Essays in German Jewish Studies
Redaktion: Donahue, William C; Helfer, Martha B.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

New essays from the Duke German Jewish Studies Workshop, the first and only ongoing forum for German Jewish Studies in North America.

Nexus is the official publication of the biennial German Jewish Studies Workshop at Duke University, the first ongoing forum in North America for German Jewish studies. It publishes innovative research in German Jewish Studies and serves as a venue for introducing new directions in the field, analyzing the development and definition of the field itself, and considering the place of German Jewish Studies within the disciplines of both German Studiesand Jewish Studies. Additionally, it examines issues of pedagogy and programming at the undergraduate, graduate, and community levels. The contributions are organized in three sections according to their approach to German JewishStudies: theoretical and philosophical, literary-historical, or approaches that focus on the Jew(s) in today's Germany.

Contributors: Nicola Behrmann, Juliette Brungs, Katja Garloff, Sander L. Gilman, Jeffrey A. Grossman, Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich, Michael G. Levine, Elizabeth Loentz, Agnes C. Mueller, Todd Samuel Presner, Lisa Silverman, David Suchoff.

William C. Donahue is Professor in German, in Jewish Studies, and in the Programin Literature at Duke University, where he is also a member of the Jewish Studies Executive Committee and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature. Martha B. Helfer is Professor and Chair of the Department of German, Russian, and Eastern European Languages and Literatures and an affiliate member of the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781571137609
• Artikelnr.: 63918584

Autorenporträt

William Collins Donahue, Martha B. Helfer

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
William Collins Donahue and Martha B. Helfer German
Jewish Studies in the Digital Age: Remarks on Discipline, Method, and Media
Todd Samuel Presner Beyond Antisemitism: A Critical Approach to German Jewish Cultural History
Lisa Silverman Unrequited Love: On the Rhetoric of a Trope from Moritz Goldstein to Hannah Arendt
Katja Garloff Happiness and Unhappiness as a "Jewish Question"
Sander L. Gilman Auerbach, Heine and the Question of Bildung in German and German Jewish Culture
Jeffrey A. Grossman The Literary Double Life of Clementine Krämer: German
Jewish Activist and Bavarian "Heimat" and Dialect Writer
Elizabeth Loentz Franz Kafka, Hebrew Writer: The Vaudeville of Linguistic Origins
David Suchoff Words at War: Hugo Ball and Walter Benjamin on Language and History
Nicola Behrmann The Inability to Love? Jews and Germans in Works by Günter Grass and Martin Walser
Agnes Mueller Written into the Body: Introducing the Performance Video Art of Tanya Ury
Juliette Brungs Disfigured Memory: The Reshaping of Holocaust Symbols in Yad Vashem and the Jewish Museum in Berlin
Jennifer Hansen
Glücklich New Subject Positions in Recent German
Jewish Film
Michael G. Levine