Nexus 7
Essays in German Jewish Studies
Published on 9. June 2026
Book
Hardback
346 pages
978-1-64014-172-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 Buerger), 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).
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 Buerger), 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).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Columbia, MD
United States
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Cloth over boards
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9 colour and 3 b/w illus.
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Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
652 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64014-172-8 (9781640141728)
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WILLIAM COLLINS DONAHUE is Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities and Professor of European Studies 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.
Content
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 prallgefuellten Sprachlosigkeiten.' Laudatio fuer 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 unablaessig 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 Wuerzburg
Barbara Honigmann
"Nichts im Leben ist so kompliziert, dass Barbara Honigmann es nicht erzaehlen koennte." Laudatio auf Barbara Honigmann zur Verleihung des Jehuda Amichai Literaturpreises am 9. Oktober 2024 in Wuerzburg /
"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, Wuerzburg, 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
Haende, 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 Buerger
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
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 prallgefuellten Sprachlosigkeiten.' Laudatio fuer 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 unablaessig 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 Wuerzburg
Barbara Honigmann
"Nichts im Leben ist so kompliziert, dass Barbara Honigmann es nicht erzaehlen koennte." Laudatio auf Barbara Honigmann zur Verleihung des Jehuda Amichai Literaturpreises am 9. Oktober 2024 in Wuerzburg /
"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, Wuerzburg, 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
Haende, 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 Buerger
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