William C Donahue & Martha B. Helfer 
Nexus 6 
Essays in German Jewish Studies

Features a new section on the institutional settings of German Jewish Studies, a Film Forum on Shahar Rozen’s 1998 documentary Liebe Perla, and interviews with Paul Mendes-Flohr and Barbara Honigmann, among other contributions.


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. Because the locus of scholarship is never incidental,
Nexus 6 introduces a new section, ‚Contexts, ‚ to examine, in this case, what it means to pursue German Jewish Studies at a Catholic university, Notre Dame. And because research is never static, it inaugurates a series in which scholars revisit their own prior scholarly publications. Robert Smith launches this initiative by revising his view of Dietrich Bonhoeffer as a source for post-Holocaust Christian-Jewish dialogue. The volume also offers conversations with the legendary Paul Mendes-Flohr on his understanding of the German Jewish ‚legacy‘ and with Barbara Honigmann on her distinctive prose style and what it means to her to practice Judaism. The popular Film Forum section returns, this time focusing on Shahar Rozen’s 1998 documentary
Liebe Perla.
Nexus 6 also presents new scholarship on Babi Yar Holocaust memorials, Freud’s famous
Moses essay, Primo Levi’s translation of Kafka, and an introduction to and first English translation of the 18th-century philosopher Salomon Maimon’s understudied essay
History of His Philosophical Authorship in Dialogues.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction – Martha B. Helfer and William Collins Donahue



Contexts: German Jewish Studies at the University of Notre Dame

Jewish Studies at a Catholic University: An Address to the German Jewish Studies Workshop, February 20, 2017 – John T. Mc Greevy

Jewish (Studies) at Notre Dame: A Welcome Address Delivered at the 6th Biennial Workshop at Notre Dame, February 2019
– Peter Holland


Nexus Film Forum: Shahar Rozen’s Liebe Perla (1998) Edited by Brad Prager

A Conversation with Shahar Rozen – Moderated by Brad Prager

An Ethics of Radical Visibility – Jennifer Cazenave

The Shape of Testimony in Shahar Rozen’s
Liebe Perla – Valentina Geri

Sight Unseen:
Liebe Perla and Archival Images – Brad Prager

Film or Photo?
Liebe Perla and Corresponding and Conflicting Survivor Testimony – Erin Mc Glothlin


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‚My Marriage to the German-Jewish Intellectual Legacy‘: A Conversation with Paul Mendes-Flohr – Moderated by Steve Dowden

Holocaust Tourism and Visual Mediation: Sergei Loznitsa’s
Austerlitz – Michael D. Richardson

Narrative Convergences and Clashes: German, Israeli, and Ukrainian Constellations of Holocaust Memory through Babi Yar Commemorations – Kristina Hook

Christian Responsibility and Anti-Jewish Theology: Revisiting ‚Reclaiming Bonhoeffer
After Auschwitz‘ – Robert O. Smith

‚Alles so ein bisschen neben der Spur‘ / ‚Everything Just a Bit off the Beaten Path‘: Aesthetics, Politics, Jewishness: A Conversation with Barbara Honigmann (German / English) – Introduced and conducted by William Donahue

Freud’s
Moses and the Critique of Nationalist Origins – Ari Linden

‚With the knife in the heart.‘ Understanding Primo Levi’s Translation of Franz Kafka’s
The Trial – Valentina Geri

Salomon Maimon’s
History of His Philosophical Authorship in Dialogues: A Primer and Translation – Jason M. Yonover

Über den Autor

STEPHEN D. DOWDEN is Professor of Germanic Languages and Chair of the European Cultural Studies Program at Brandeis University.