Nexus 4: Essays in German Jewish Studies(Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies)

About the Book

Features a special section on the Hungarian German Jewish writer and theater director George Tabori and a Forum section on the 2016 film A German Life. 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 4 features a special section on the Hungarian German Jewish writer and theater director George Tabori; edited by Martin Kagel, this section includes both new documentary material and a number of trenchant scholarly articles. Additionally, the volume includes a Forum section (edited by Brad Prager) on the 2016 documentary film A German Life, an exploration of Kafka and childhood (Ritchie Robertson), and a provocative reassessment of Schindler's List (Eva Revesz). Contributors: Tobias Boes, Antje Diedrich, Norbert Otto Eke, Martin Kagel, Jennifer M. Kapczynski, Brad Prager, Eva Revesz, Ritchie Robertson, Robert Skloot, Kerstin Steitz, Donna Stonecipher, Lena Tabori, StanleyWalden, Valerie Weinstein. William Collins Donahue is the John J. Cavanaugh Professor 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, The State University of New Jersey. Special section editor Martin Kagel is A. G. Steer Professor of German at the University of Georgia.

Table of Contents:
Introduction - William Collins Donahue and Martha B. Helfer Kafka, Childhood, and History - Ritchie Robertson The Black, White, and Gray Zones of Schindler's List: Steven Spielberg with Primo Levi - Eva Revesz NEXUS FORUM on A GERMAN LIFE Perspectives on A German Life - Brad Prager No False Remorse: A Workshop with Florian Weigensamer, Director of A German Life (2016) Only Skin Deep - Tobias Boes A Brunhilde for Our Time: Eliding the Questions in A German Life - William Collins Donahue Hitler's Helpmates - Jennifer M. Kapczynski Zooming in on Moral Guilt: A German Life as an Artistic Public Trial - Kerstin Steitz Framing the Beldame in A German Life and Blind Spot - Valerie Weinstein SPECIAL SECTION on GEORGE TABORI Introduction - Martin Kagel Waiting for The Cannibals: George Tabori's Post-Holocaust Play - William Collins Donahue "Sacrifice is the test for loyalty, Goldberg." Sacrifice and the Passion of Christ in George Tabori's Comedy The Goldberg-Variations - Norbert Otto Eke "Empathy for the Entire Spectrum of Selves and Others": George Tabori's Humanism - Antje Diedrich A Triple Act of Translation: George Tabori and Brecht on Brecht - Donna Stonecipher My War Story: Tabori, Brecht, and Vietnam - Robert Skloot My Life with George - Lena Tabori Some Observations by an American Acting in the German Theater (1984) - Stanley Walden

About the Author :
WILLIAM COLLINS DONAHUE is Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities at the University of Notre Dame. MARTHA B. HELFER is Professor of German at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. BRAD PRAGER is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair of Humanities, Professor of German, and Professor of Film Studies at the University of Missouri. MARTHA B. HELFER is Professor of German at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. TOBIAS BOES is Professor of German and Chair of the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame, IN. WILLIAM COLLINS DONAHUE is Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities at the University of Notre Dame.