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 n...
Asher Ginsberg (1856-1927), also known as Ahad Ha'am, was a prominent pre-state Zionist thinker and considered the founder of Cultural Zionism, fighting for what he described as 'a Jewish state and not merely a state of Jews.' This 1912 collection of essays, translated by Leon Simon, expresses his philosophy and beliefs on Zionism and other Jewish topics, helping the reader build an understanding of Ahad Ha'am and his era.
Babel' in Context (Borderlines: Russian and East European-Jewish Studies)
by Efraim Sicher
Isaak Babel (1894-1940) is arguably one of the greatest modern short story writers of the early twentieth century. Yet his life and work are shrouded in the mystery of who Babel was-an Odessa Jew who wrote in Russian, who came from one of the most vibrant centres of east European Jewish culture and all his life loved Yiddish and the stories of Sholom Aleichem.This is the first book in English to study the intertextuality of Babel's work. It looks at Babel's cultural identity as a case study in t...
Der Begriff des Nachexils ist in den letzten Jahren im Kontext unterschiedlicher Literaturen zu einem wichtigen analytischen Begriff avanciert. Scheint er zunächst mit dem Begriff der Postmigration weitgehend identisch und mit der Diaspora eng verwandt, so enthält er jedoch eine Reihe zentraler Implikationen, die ihn von beiden Konzepten prinzipiell unterscheiden und die entsprechend für das Verständnis des Nachexils wesentlich sind. Der Band setzt sich zum Ziel, die Facetten der kulturellen Ver...
Ezekiel's Visionary Temple in Babylonian Context (Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Fur die Alttestamentliche Wissensch)
by Tova Ganzel
Final novel by the Nobel Laureate. Set against the backdrop of 1930s Jerusalem. A tragic love story.
Eleven years old and on the cusp of puberty, Aron Kleinfeld is precocious, imaginative - the leader of his gang of friends. But his bar mitzvah is looming, his friends are all hitting puberty and Aron, terrified and revolted by what he sees around him, enters a state of arrested development. He stops growing, retreats from the world, and is imprisoned in the body of a child for three long years. While Israel inches towards the Six-Day War, and his friends cross the boundary between childhood and...
Does David Still Play Before You? explores the ways that contemporary Israeli poets have made use of images from the Bible in their poetry. Through close readings of fifty poems, featured in their original Hebrew and in English translation, David Jacobson studies how Israeli poets respond to and incorporate the Bible in their work and reflect on the presence of the Bible in contemporary Israeli culture. The book provides a stunning collection of powerful and moving voices. Jacobson organizes the...
Love + Marriage = Death (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture)
by Sander L. Gilman
The essays in this collection, written by a pioneering interdisciplinary scholar, deal with the roles of images in the construction of stereotypes and the categories of difference as represented in texts—in high literature, in medical literature, in art—from the last fin-de-siècle to our own. Intensely engaged in the cultural politics of everyday life and conscious of how texts reflect and shape our social practices, they deal primarily with representations and self-representations of “Jews” in...
Sound an Alarm! Two volumes
Geschichte Eines Judischen Soldaten: Bekenntnis Eines Von Vielen
by Simon Dubnow
When Isaac Bashevis Singer emigrated from Poland to America in 1935, he left behind his wife and five-year-old son, Israel, with the promise to send for them as soon as he got settled. He never did. Mother and child moved first to the USSR and ultimately to Israel, where Zamir grew up on a kibbutz. In 1995, twenty years after their separation, Zamir came to New York to meet his father. Singer's strengths and failings, his methods of working, his passion for the Yiddish language, his lust for wor...