Record Nr.

UNINA9911009389503321

Titolo

Nexus : essays in German Jewish studies . Volume 3 / / edited by William Collins Donahue and Martha B. Helfer [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Rochester, NY : , : Camden House, , 2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 186 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies ; ; 3

Disciplina

430

Soggetti

Jews, German

Jews - Germany

Germany Civilization Jewish influences Periodicals

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jun 2017).

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- “Ein weites Feld”: Ein Wort zu deutsch-jüdischen Studien anläßlich der Verleihung des ersten Egon Schwarz Prize for the Best Essay in German Jewish Studies -- “An Open Field”: A Word about German Jewish Studies on the Occasion of the Presentation of the first Egon Schwarz Prize for the Best Essay in German Jewish Studies -- Laudatio for Abigail Gillman’s Prize-Winning Nexus Essay: “Martin Buber’s Message to Postwar Germany” -- Nexus Forum on Heinrich Heine -- Heinrich Heine in Modern German History, by an Eyewitness -- Jeffrey Sammons, Heine, and Me: Some Autobiographical Reflections -- Heine’s Disparate Legacies: A Response to Jeffrey Sammons -- My Debt to Heine and Sammons -- Nexus Forum on Karl Kraus -- Die letzten Tage der Menschheit as a German-Jewish Tragicomedy, and the Challenge to Translators -- Edward Timms’s “Die letzten Tage der Menschheit as a German-Jewish Tragicomedy and the Challenge to Translators”: A Response -- Kraus the Mouse? Kafka’s Late Reading of Die Fackel and the Vagaries of Literary History -- The Parable of the Rings: Sigmund Freud Reads Lessing -- The Poetics of the Polis: Remarks on the Latency of the Literary in Hannah Arendt’s Concept of Public Space -- The Marrano in Modernity: The Case of Karl Gutzkow -- German Jews Dogged by Destiny: Werewolves and Other Were-Canids in the Works of Heinrich Heine and Curt Siodmak -- Authenticity, Distance, and the

East German Volksstück: Yiddish in Thomas Christoph Harlan’s Ich Selbst und Kein Engel

Sommario/riassunto

Nexus is the official publication of the biennial German Jewish Studies Workshop, which was inaugurated at Duke University in 2009, and is now held at the University of Notre Dame. Together, Nexus and the Workshop constitute the first ongoing forum in North America for German Jewish Studies. Nexus publishes innovative research in German Jewish Studies, introducing new directions, analyzing the development and definition of the field, and considering its place vis-à-vis both German Studies and Jewish Studies. Additionally, it examines issues of pedagogy and programming at the undergraduate, graduate, and community levels. Nexus 3 features special forum sections on Heinrich Heine and Karl Kraus. Renowned Heine scholar Jeffrey Sammons offers a magisterial critical retrospective on this towering "German Jewish" author, followed by a response from Ritchie Robertson, while the dean of Kraus scholarship, Edward Timms, reflects on the challenges and rewards oftranslating German Jewish dialect into English. Paul Reitter provides a thoughtful response. Contributors: Angela Botelho, Jay Geller, Abigail Gillman, Jeffrey A. Grossman, Leo Lensing, Georg Mein, Paul Reitter, Ritchie Robertson, Jeffrey L. Sammons, Egon Schwarz, Edward Timms, Liliane Weissberg, Emma Woelk. William Collins Donahue is the John J. Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities at the University of Notre Dame, where he chairs the Department of German and Russian. Martha B. Helfer is Professor of German and an affiliate member of the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.