Nexus 1

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. MARTHA B. HELFER is Professor of German at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. WILLIAM COLLINS DONAHUE is Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities and Professor of European Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

• Introduction - William Collins Donahue and Martha B. HelferGerman-Jewish Studies in the Digital Age: Remarks on Discipline, Method, and Media - Todd Samuel PresnerBeyond Antisemitism: A Critical Approach to German Jewish Cultural History - Lisa SilvermanUnrequited Love: On the Rhetoric of a Trope from Moritz Goldstein to Hannah Arendt - Katja GarloffHappiness and Unhappiness as a "Jewish Question" - Sander L. GilmanAuerbach, Heine and the Question of Bildung in German and German Jewish Culture - Jeffrey A. GrossmanThe Literary Double Life of Clementine Krämer: German-Jewish Activist and Bavarian "Heimat" and Dialect Writer - Elizabeth LoentzFranz Kafka, Hebrew Writer: The Vaudeville of Linguistic Origins - David SuchoffWords at War: Hugo Ball and Walter Benjamin on Language and History - Nicola BehrmannThe Inability to Love? Jews and Germans in Works by Günter Grass and Martin Walser - Agnes MuellerWritten into the Body: Introducing the Performance Video Art of Tanya Ury - Juliette BrungsDisfigured Memory: The Reshaping of Holocaust Symbols in Yad Vashem and the Jewish Museum in Berlin - Jennifer Hansen-GlücklichNew Subject Positions in Recent German-Jewish Film - Michael G. Levine

What is most impressive about a number of these essays is that the argument their authors develop with reference to specific texts could be appropriated for other texts offering similarly new insights. . . . Nexus . . . promises to contribute new and exciting perspectives to our understanding of German-Jewish philosophy, literature, and culture.