Nexus 7

Essays in German Jewish Studies
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64014-172-8
Verlag: Camden House

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 346 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 652 g

Reihe: Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies

Features speeches celebrating literary prize recipient Barbara Honigmann, a film forum on Ruth Beckermann's 2018 documentary Waldheims Walzer, and essays on Anne Frank, translating Marx, Yiddish studies, and other topics.

Nexus is the official publication of the biennial German Jewish Studies Workshop at the University of Notre Dame. Together, Nexus and the workshop constitute the first ongoing German Jewish Studies forum in North America for German Jewish Studies.

Nexus 7 features a special section of speeches celebrating literary prize recipient Barbara Honigmann, and a lively film forum (edited by Brad Prager) on the 2018 documentary Waldheims Walzer. It continues its commitment to revisiting prior research in a dynamically changing field with a reflection on the disciplinarity of scholarly reviews (Daniel Reynolds). Rounding out the volume is exciting new scholarship on The Diary of Anne Frank (Thomas Sparr), translating Marx's Capital (Paul Reitter), new directions in Yiddish/German literary relations (Jeffrey Grossman), Karl Kraus's Third Walpurgis Night (Leo Lensing), Joseph Roth's Job (Jan Bürger), the migration experiences of a mother and daughter in the Third Reich (Amy Shevitz), and Max Czollek's poem cycle "von der Wiederkehr" (Molly Krueger).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Donahue, William C

Helfer, Martha B.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Biermann, Wolf

Bürger, Jan

Prager, Brad

Grossman, Jeffrey A.

Honigmann, Barbara

Krueger, Molly

Lensing, Leo A

Reitter, Paul

Reynolds, Daniel P.

Shevitz, Amy

Silverman, Lisa

Sparr, Thomas

Spoerri, Bettina

Twitchell, Corey L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
William Collins Donahue and Martha B. Helfer

Special Section: Speeches on Occasion of Barbara Honigmann's Literary Prizes

Writing the "Duality of Existence": Three Literary Prizes for Barbara Honigmann
William Collins Donahue

"Daß ich eins und doppelt bin."Rede zum Empfang des Goethe-Preises /
"That I am Both One and Double": Goethe Prize Acceptance Speech
Barbara Honigmann[JW1]

'Ihre prallgefüllten Sprachlosigkeiten.' Laudatio für Barbara Honigmann /
"Her voluminous speechlessness": Laudatio for Barbara Honigmann
Wolf Biermann

"Kostbare. fragile Geschenke." Rede zum Schiller Preis /
"Precious. fragile Gifts": Acceptance Speech for the Schiller Prize
Barbara Honigmann

"Wie in einem sich unablässig drehenden Kaleidoskop." Laudatio auf Barbara Honigmann zum Empfang des Schiller-Preises am 22.9.24 in Marbach /
"As in a Perpetually Shifting Kaleidoscope": Laudatio for Barbara Honigmann on Her Receipt of the Schiller Prize on September 22, 2024 in Marbach
Bettina Spoerri

Verwurzelt in zwei Sprachen. Rede zum Empfang des Jehuda-Amichai-Preises /
Rooted in Two Languages: Speech on the Receipt of the First Yehuda Amichai Prize of the City of Würzburg
Barbara Honigmann

"Nichts im Leben ist so kompliziert, dass Barbara Honigmann es nicht erzählen könnte." Laudatio auf Barbara Honigmann zur Verleihung des Jehuda Amichai Literaturpreises am 9. Oktober 2024 in Würzburg /
"Nothing in life is so complicated that Barbara Honigmann couldn't tell its story": Laudatio for Barbara Honigmann, Recipient of the Inaugural Yehuda Amichai Prize, Würzburg, October 9, 2024
Thomas Sparr

Nexus Film Forum:

Ruth Beckermann's Waldheims Walzer (2018)
Edited by Brad Prager

Discussion of Ruth Beckermann's The Waldheim Waltz (2018)
Moderated by Brad Prager and Lisa Silverman

".lernts was von de Christen": Lessons of Alfred Hrdlicka's "Straßenwaschender Jude" (Street-Scrubbing Jew)
Lisa Silverman

Hände, denen die Welt vertraut:

Kurt Waldheim's Gesticulating Hands in Waldheims Walzer
Corey L. Twitchell

For the Record: The Enduring Contemporaneity of Waldheims Walzer
Brad Prager

The Disciplinarity of Scholarly Reviews: What I Learned from my Critics about Postcards from Auschwitz
Daniel P. Reynolds

"I want to go on living even after my death": The Biography of The Diary of Anne Frank
Thomas Sparr

Translating Marx's Capital: Reflections on Translation Strategies, Reception, and Hierarchies of Interpretation
Paul Reitter

New Directions in the Study of German/Yiddish Literary Relations
Jeffrey A. Grossman

Karl Kraus's Third Walpurgis Night: Lost in Translation, Found in a Digital Edition
Leo A. Lensing

Miriam's Suffering: A New Reading of Joseph Roth's Novel Job
Jan Bürger

Mother and Daughter: The Pull of "Home" in the Migration Experiences of Two German Jewish Women
Amy Shevitz

Beyond the Lachrymose: Holocaust Iconography and the Poetics of the Contemporary in Max Czollek's "von der wiederkehr" (of return, 2015)
Molly Krueger

Über Autor(innen)

Donahue, William C
WILLIAM COLLINS DONAHUE is Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities and Professor of European Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Prager, Brad
BRAD PRAGER is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair of Humanities, Professor of German, and Professor of Film Studies at the University of Missouri.

Helfer, Martha B.
MARTHA B. HELFER is Professor of German at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.