Nexus : essays in German Jewish studies. Volume 1 / edited by William Collins Donahue and Martha B. Helfer. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Donahue, William Collins, editor.

Helfer, Martha B., 1962- editor.

Duke University, associated with work.

Series:

Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Germany.

Jews.

Jews--Germany--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2011.

"A publication of Duke University Jewish studies".

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 28, 2023).

ISBN:

1-57113-760-2

OCLC:

785725598