Beyond Antisemitism: A Critical Approach to German Jewish Cultural History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Theoretical Approaches to the Field
6. German-Jewish Studies in the Digital Age: Remarks on Discipline, Method, and Media 7
7. Beyond Antisemitism: A Critical Approach to German Jewish Cultural History 27
8. Unrequited Love: On the Rhetoric of a Trope from Moritz Goldstein to Hannah Arendt 47
9. Happiness and Unhappiness as a “Jewish Question” 67
10. II. Literary and Literary-Historical Studies
11. Auerbach, Heine and the Question of Bildung in German and German Jewish Culture 85
12. The Literary Double Life of Clementine Krämer: German-Jewish Activist and Bavarian “Heimat” and Dialect Writer 109
13. Franz Kafka, Hebrew Writer: The Vaudeville of Linguistic Origins 137
14. Words at War: Hugo Ball and Walter Benjamin on Language and History 153
15. The Inability to Love? Jews and Germans in Works by Günter Grass and Martin Walser 171
16. III. Public Culture: Memorial, Performance, and Post-Holocaust Retrospectives
17. Written into the Body: Introducing the Performance Video Art of Tanya Ury 189
18. Disfigured Memory: The Reshaping of Holocaust Symbols in Yad Vashem and the Jewish Museum in Berlin 205
19. New Subject Positions in Recent German-Jewish Film 227