Nexus 2

Essays in German Jewish Studies

William Collins Donahue, Martha B. Helfer

• Publisher: Camden House
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781571135636
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781571138811
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: German History
• Index: Literature

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 Studies and Jewish Studies. Additionally, it examines issues of pedagogy and programming at the undergraduate, graduate, and community levels. The second volume of Nexus presents a special forum section on the controversial German Jewish religious historian Hans-Joachim Schoeps (1909-80), including contributions by Julius H. Schoeps, Hans J. Hillerbrand, Eric M. Meyers, Laura Lieber, Noah B. Strote, and Paul Reitter, as well as cutting-edge essays that highlight important new developments in the field of German Jewish Studies. Contributors: Nick Block, Abigail Gillman, Anton Hieke, Hans J. Hillerbrand, Martin Kagel, Richard S. Levy, Laura Lieber, Eric M. Meyers, Andrea Reiter, Paul Reitter, Julius H. Schoeps, Noah B. Strote, Karina von Tippelskirch. William C. Donahue is Bishop-MacDermott Family Professor of Germanic Languages & Literature, and Professor, Program in Literature and Jewish Studies, Duke University. Martha B. Helfer is Professor of German and an affiliate member of the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Table of contents

• Frontcover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Nexus Forum
• Setting the Record Straight Regarding The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: A Fool’s Errand?
• A Discussion of the “German” Dimension of Reform Judaism in Select Congregations in Three American Southern States, 1860–1880
• Weimar on Broadway: Fritz Kortner and Dorothy Thompson’s Refugee Play Another Sun
• If I forget thee, O Jerusalem: The Jewish Exilic Mind in Else Lasker-Schüler’s IchundIch
• “Seit ein Gespräch wir sind und hören können von einander”: Martin Buber’s Message to Postwar Germany
• Hungerkünstler: George Tabori Directs Kafka in Bremen (1977)
• Performing the Jew in Austria after Waldheim: Robert Menasse’s Die Vertreibung aus der Hölle