Nexus 3 (eBook)

Essays in German Jewish Studies

William Collins Donahue, Martha B. Helfer (Herausgeber)

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2017
196 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer (Verlag)
978-1-78204-905-0 (ISBN)

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Biennial volume of new and innovative essays on German Jewish Studies, featuring forum sections on Heinrich Heine and Karl Kraus.Nexus is the official publication of the biennial German Jewish Studies Workshop, which was inaugurated at Duke University in 2009 and is now held at the University of Notre Dame. Together, Nexus and the Workshop constitute the first ongoing forum in North America for German Jewish Studies. Nexus publishes innovative research in German Jewish Studies, introducing new directions, analyzing the development and definition of the field, and considering its place vis-a-vis both German Studies and Jewish Studies. Additionally, it examines issues of pedagogy and programming at the undergraduate, graduate, and community levels. Nexus 3 features special forum sections on Heinrich Heine and Karl Kraus. Renowned Heine scholar Jeffrey Sammons offers a magisterial critical retrospective on this towering "e;German Jewish"e; author, followed by a response from Ritchie Robertson, while the deanof Kraus scholarship, Edward Timms, reflects on the challenges and rewards of translating German Jewish dialect into English. Paul Reitter provides a thoughtful response. Contributors: Angela Botelho, Jay Geller, Abigail Gillman, Jeffrey A. Grossman, Leo Lensing, Georg Mein, Paul Reitter, Ritchie Robertson, Jeffrey L. Sammons, Egon Schwarz, Edward Timms, Liliane Weissberg, Emma Woelk. William Collins Donahue is the John J. CavanaughProfessor of the Humanities at the University of Notre Dame, where he chairs the Department of German and Russian. Martha B. Helfer is Professor of German and an affiliate member of the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers, TheState University of New Jersey.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies
• Co-Autor: Angela Botelho, Ritchie Robertson, Jeffrey L Sammons, Egon Schwarz, Edward Timms, Liliane Weissberg, Emma Woelk, William Collins Donahue, Jay Geller, Abigail Gillman, Jeffrey A. Grossman, Martha B. Helfer, Leo Lensing, Georg Mein, Paul Reitter
• Zusatzinfo: 2 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Rochester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Anthropology • Culture • Culture Studies • Germany • Heinrich Heine • international religions • Israel • Judaism • Karl Kraus • Religious Studies • Sociology • Translation
• ISBN-10: 1-78204-905-3 / 1782049053
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78204-905-0 / 9781782049050