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Genre/Form: | Conference papers and proceedings Congresses |
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Material Type: | Conference publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William Collins Donahue; Martha B Helfer |
ISBN: | 9781571135018 1571135014 |
OCLC Number: | 776877617 |
Notes: | "A publication of Duke University Jewish Studies." "ISSN: 2159-3418"--Title page verso. "Nexus is the official publication of the biennial German Jewish Studies Workshop at Duke University, the first ongoing forum in North American for German Jewish studies."--Page 4 of cover. |
Description: | viii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Introduction / William Collins Donahue and Martha B. Helfer -- I. Theoretical Approaches to the Field. 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 -- II. Literary and Literary-Historical Studies. 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 -- III. Public Culture: Memorial, Performance, and Post-Holocaust Retrospectives. 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-Glucklich -- New Subject Positions in Recent German-Jewish Film / Michael G. Levine. |
Other Titles: | Nexus (Rochester, N.Y.). Essays in German Jewish studies |
Responsibility: | edited by William Collins Donahue and Martha B. Helfer. |
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What is most impressive about a number of these essays is that the argument their authors develop with reference to specific texts could be appropriated for other texts offering similarly new insights. . . . Nexus . . . promises to contribute new and exciting perspectives to our understanding of German-Jewish philosophy, literature, and culture. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW [A] welcome new series . . . [that] can be expected to become a platform for important research and debates on German Jewish literary and cultural studies. . . . [T]his is a series to which both readers and libraries would be well advised to subscribe. RITCHIE ROBERTSON, JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES Read more...

