Nexus 3: Essays in German Jewish Studies

Biennial volume of new and innovative essays on German Jewish Studies, featuring forum sections on Heinrich Heine and Karl Kraus

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Main Author: Donahue, William Collins (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Melton Boydell & Brewer 2017
Series:Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies
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Summary:Biennial volume of new and innovative essays on German Jewish Studies, featuring forum sections on Heinrich Heine and Karl Kraus
Item Description:Frontcover -- 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
Physical Description:1 online resource (198 pages)
ISBN:9781782049050

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