Nexus 1

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

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

Nexus is the official publication of the biennial German Jewish Studies Workshop at Duke University, the first ongoing forum in North America for German Jewish studies. It 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 Studiesand Jewish Studies. Additionally, it examines issues of pedagogy and programming at the undergraduate, graduate, and community levels. The contributions are organized in three sections according to their approach to German JewishStudies: theoretical and philosophical, literary-historical, or approaches that focus on the Jew(s) in today's Germany.

Contributors: Nicola Behrmann, Juliette Brungs, Katja Garloff, Sander L. Gilman, Jeffrey A. Grossman, Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich, Michael G. Levine, Elizabeth Loentz, Agnes C. Mueller, Todd Samuel Presner, Lisa Silverman, David Suchoff.

William C. Donahue is Professor in German, in Jewish Studies, and in the Programin Literature at Duke University, where he is also a member of the Jewish Studies Executive Committee and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature. Martha B. Helfer is Professor and Chair of the Department of German, Russian, and Eastern European Languages and Literatures and an affiliate member of the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University.

Introduction - William Collins Donahue and Martha B. Helfer
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
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
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-Glücklich
New Subject Positions in Recent German-Jewish Film - Michael G. Levine