Features a special section on the Hungarian German Jewish writer and theater director George Tabori and aForum section on the 2016 filmA German Life.

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.



Nexus is the official publication of the biennial German Jewish Studies Workshop, which was inaugurated at Duke University in 2009 and is now held at the University of Notre Dame. TogetherNexus and the Workshop constitute the first ongoing forum in North America for German Jewish studies.Nexus publishes innovative research in German Jewish Studies, introducing new directions, analyzing the development and definition of the field, and considering its place vis-à-vis both German Studies and Jewish Studies. Additionally, it examines issues of pedagogy and programming at the undergraduate, graduate, and community levels.
Nexus 4 features a special section on the Hungarian German Jewish writer and theater director George Tabori; edited by Martin Kagel, this section includes both new documentary material and a number of trenchant scholarly articles. Additionally, the volume includes aForum section (edited by Brad Prager) on the 2016 documentary filmA German Life, an exploration of Kafka and childhood (Ritchie Robertson), and a provocative reassessment ofSchindler's List (Eva Revesz).

Contributors: Tobias Boes, Antje Diedrich, Norbert Otto Eke, Martin Kagel, Jennifer M. Kapczynski, Brad Prager, Eva Revesz, Ritchie Robertson, Robert Skloot, Kerstin Steitz, Donna Stonecipher, Lena Tabori, StanleyWalden, Valerie Weinstein.

William Collins Donahue is the John J. Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities at the University of Notre Dame, where he chairs the Department of German and Russian. Martha B. Helfer is Professor of German and an affiliate member of the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Special section editor Martin Kagel is A. G. Steer Professor of German at the University of Georgia.

Introduction - William Collins Donahue and Martha B. Helfer
Kafka, Childhood, and History - Ritchie Robertson
The Black, White, and Gray Zones ofSchindler's List: Steven Spielberg with Primo Levi - Eva Revesz
NEXUS FORUM onA GERMAN LIFE
Perspectives onA German Life - Brad Prager
No False Remorse: A Workshop with Florian Weigensamer, Director ofA German Life (2016)
Only Skin Deep - Tobias Boes
A Brunhilde for Our Time: Eliding the Questions inA German Life - William Collins Donahue
Hitler's Helpmates - Jennifer M. Kapczynski
Zooming in on Moral Guilt:A German Life as an Artistic Public Trial - Kerstin Steitz
Framing the Beldame inA German Life andBlind Spot - Valerie Weinstein
SPECIAL SECTION on GEORGE TABORI
Introduction - Martin Kagel
Waiting forThe Cannibals: George Tabori's Post-Holocaust Play - William Collins Donahue
"Sacrifice is the test for loyalty, Goldberg." Sacrifice and the Passion of Christ in George Tabori's ComedyThe Goldberg-Variations - Norbert Otto Eke
"Empathy for the Entire Spectrum of Selves and Others": George Tabori's Humanism - Antje Diedrich
A Triple Act of Translation: George Tabori andBrecht on Brecht - Donna Stonecipher
My War Story: Tabori, Brecht, and Vietnam - Robert Skloot
My Life with George - Lena Tabori
Some Observations by an American Acting in the German Theater (1984) - Stanley Walden