Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies, Volume 1

William Collins Donahue, Martha B. Helfer

New essays from the Duke German Jewish Studies Workshop, the first and only ongoing forum for German Jewish Studies in North America.

Introduction - William Collins Donahue and Martha B. HelferGerman-Jewish Studies in the Digital Age: Remarks on Discipline, Method, and Media - Todd Samuel PresnerBeyond Antisemitism: A Critical Approach to German Jewish Cultural History - Lisa SilvermanUnrequited Love: On the Rhetoric of a Trope from Moritz Goldstein to Hannah Arendt - Katja GarloffHappiness and Unhappiness as a "Jewish Question" - Sander L. GilmanAuerbach, Heine and the Question of Bildung in German and German Jewish Culture - Jeffrey A. GrossmanThe Literary Double Life of Clementine Krämer: German-Jewish Activist and Bavarian "Heimat" and Dialect Writer - Elizabeth LoentzFranz Kafka, Hebrew Writer: The Vaudeville of Linguistic Origins - David SuchoffWords at War: Hugo Ball and Walter Benjamin on Language and History - Nicola BehrmannThe Inability to Love? Jews and Germans in Works by Günter Grass and Martin Walser - Agnes MuellerWritten into the Body: Introducing the Performance Video Art of Tanya Ury - Juliette BrungsDisfigured Memory: The Reshaping of Holocaust Symbols in Yad Vashem and the Jewish Museum in Berlin - Jennifer Hansen-GlücklichNew Subject Positions in Recent German-Jewish Film - Michael G. Levine