Nexus : essays in German Jewish studies. Volume 4 / edited by William Collins Donahue (University of Notre Dame) and Martha B. Helfer (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey).

Features a special section on the Hungarian German Jewish writer and theater director George Tabori and a Forum section on the 2016 film A German Life.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Corporate Author: German Jewish Studies Workshop
Other Authors: Donahue, William Collins (Editor), Helfer, Martha B., 1962- (Editor)
Other title:Nexus (Rochester, N.Y.). Volume 4.
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Rochester, NY : Camden House, an imprint of Boydell and Brewer Inc., 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Kafka, childhood, and history
  • The black, white, and gray zones of Schindler's List: Steven Spielberg with Primo Levi
  • Nexus Forum: A German Life edited and introduced by Brad Prager
  • Perspectives on A German Life
  • "No false remorse": a workshop with Florian Weigensamer, director of A German Life (2016)
  • Only skin deep
  • A Brunhilde for our time: eliding the questions in A German Life
  • Hitler's helpmates
  • Zooming in on moral guilt: A German Life as an artistic public trial
  • Framing the beldame in A German Life and Blind Spot
  • Special section on George Tabori edited and introduced by Martin Kagel
  • Introduction to the special section on George Tabori
  • Waiting for The Cannibals: George Tabori's post-holocaust play
  • "Sacrifice is the test for loyalty, Goldberg." Sacrifice and the passion of Christ in George Tabori's comedy The Goldberg-Variations
  • "Empathy for the entire spectrum of selves and others": George Tabori's humanism
  • A triple act of translation: George Tabori and Brecht on Brecht
  • My war story: Tabori, Brecht, and Vietnam
  • My Life with George
  • Some observations by an American acting in the German theater (1984).