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Record Nr.

UNINA9911008974803321

Titolo

Nexus : essays in German Jewish studies. Volume I / / a publication of Duke University Jewish studies ; edited by William Collins Donahue and Martha B. Helfer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rochester, N.Y., : Camden House, 2011

ISBN

1-57113-760-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 246 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Nexus : essays in German Jewish studies, , 2159-3418 ; ; v. 1

Altri autori (Persone)

DonahueWilliam Collins

HelferMartha B

Disciplina

943.004924

Soggetti

Jews - Germany

Jews, German

Germany Civilization Jewish influences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2011.

"A publication of Duke University Jewish studies".

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontcover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; I. Theoretical Approaches to the Field; German-Jewish Studies in the Digital Age: Remarks on Discipline, Method, and Media; Beyond Antisemitism: A Critical Approach to German Jewish Cultural History; Unrequited Love: On the Rhetoric of a Trope from Moritz Goldstein to Hannah Arendt; Happiness and Unhappiness as a "Jewish Question"; II. Literary and Literary-Historical Studies; Auerbach, Heine and the Question of Bildung in German and German Jewish Culture

The Literary Double Life of Clementine Krämer: German-Jewish Activist and Bavarian "Heimat" and Dialect WriterFranz Kafka, Hebrew Writer: The Vaudeville of Linguistic Origins; Words at War: Hugo Ball and Walter Benjamin on Language and History; The Inability to Love? Jews and Germans in Works by Günter Grassand Martin Walser; III. Public Culture: Memorial, Performance, and Post-Holocaust Retrospectives; Written into the Body: Introducing the Performance Video Art of Tanya Ury; Disfigured Memory: The Reshaping of Holocaust Symbols in Yad Vashem and the Jewish Museum in Berlin



New Subject Positions in Recent German-Jewish FilmBackcover

Sommario/riassunto

'Nexus' 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 studies and Jewish studies.