Nexus : essays in German Jewish studies.: essays in German Jewish studies. Volume 3 (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Nexus 3
• Uniform Title: Nexus (Rochester, N.Y.). Volume 3.
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Willilan Collins Donahue and Martha B. Helfer.
• Editors: Donahue, William Collins; Helfer, Martha B, 1962-
• Other Names: German Jewish Studies Workshop
• Contents: Introduction / William Collins Donahue and Martha B. Helfer -- "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 / Egon Schwarz -- "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 / Egon Schwarz -- Laudatio for Abigail Gillman's prize-winning Nexus essay: "Martin Buber's message to postwar Germany" / William Collins Donahue and Martha B. Helfer -- Nexus forum on Heinrich Heine. Heinrich Heine in modern German history, by an eyewitness / Jeffrey L. Sammons -- Jeffrey Sammons, Heine, and Me: some autobiographical reflections / Ritchie Robertson -- Heine's disparate legacies: a resposne to Jeffrey Sammons / Jeffrey A. Grossmann -- My debt to Heine and Sammons / Abigail Gillman -- Nexus forum on Karl Kraus. Die letzten Tage der Menschheit as a German-Jewish tragicomedy, and the challenge to translators / Edward Timms -- Edward Timm's "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit as a German-Jewish tragicomedy and the challenge to translators": a reponse / Paul Reitter -- Kraus the mounse? Kafka's late reading of Die Fackel and the vagaries of literary history / Leo Lensing -- The parable of the rings: Sigmund Freud reads Lessing / Liliane Weissberg -- The poetics of the polis: remarks of the latency of the literary in Hannah Arendt's concept of public space / Georg Mein -- The Marrano in modernity: the case of Karl Gutzkow / Angela Botelho -- German Jews dogged by destiny: werewolves and other were-canids in the works of Heinrich Heine and Curt Siodmak / Jay Geller -- Authenticity, distance, and the east German Volksstück: Yiddish in Thomas Christoph Harlan's Ich Selbst und Kein Engel / Emma Woelk.
• Publisher Details: Rochester, NY : Camden House
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 186 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 943.004924; Jews -- Germany; Jews -- Study and teaching -- Germany; Jews, German; HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany; Civilization -- Jewish influences; Jews; Jews, German; Jews -- Study and teaching; Germany -- Civilization -- Jewish influences; Germany; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782049050; 1782049053
• Related ISBNs: 9781571139634; 157113963X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed March 29, 2017).
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