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PETER LANG - European Academic Publishers
are pleased to announce a new book by
Peter Meister (ed.)
GERMAN LITERATURE BETWEEN FAITHS
Jew and Christian at Odds and in Harmony
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien,
2004. XVIII, 244 pp. Studies in German Jewish History. Vol. 6 General
Editor: Peter D. G. Brown
ISBN 3-03910-174-9 / US-ISBN 0-8204-6984-X pb.
sFr. 67.00 / EUR* 45.80 / EUR** 42.80 / £ 30.00 / US-$ 50.95
* includes VAT - only valid for Germany and Austria
** does not include VAT
Religion is a central concern of German literature in all centuries,
and the canon looks different when this perspective is acknowledged.
For example, Goethe's fascination with evil is difficult to disentangle
from the Holocaust, Moses Mendelssohn is as profound as the playwright
who portrayed him, and «Princess Sabbath» deserves to be numbered among
Heine's more enchanting lyrics.
This essay collection posits, and tests, the hypothesis that German
literature at its best is often an expression or investigation of
Judaism or Christianity at their best; but that the best German
literature is not always the best-known, and vice versa. Asking whether
the New Testament is anti-Jewish (and answering in the negative),
essayists range through the German centuries from "The Heliand" to
Kafka and Thomas Mann.
Contents:
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Peter Meister: Preface - Lawrence E. Frizzell: Jew and Christian in the
New Testament - G. Ronald Murphy, S.J.: The Jews in the "Heliand" -
Danielle Buschinger (tr. Kwaku Gyasi): Two Sages of Troyes: Rashi and
Chrétien - Debra L. Stoudt: Parallels between Jewish and Christian
Mystical Experiences in Medieval Germany - Albrecht Classen: Jewish-
Christian Relations in Medieval Literature - Manfred Voigts: Three
Rings: Mendelssohn - "Nathan" - Lessing - G. Ronald Murphy, S.J.:
Precious Crumbs: Home... and Hansel... and Gretel - Peter Meister: Two
Temptation Scenes: Jesus and Faust - William C. McDonald: «Do I Not
Hear the Jordan Rippling?» Heine the Hebrew? - Manfred Voigts: Franz
Kafka at the Entrance to Torah - Kelly Cherry: Thomas Mann's "Doctor
Faustus": A Dialogue Volume - Albert H. Friedlander: Germany at its
Best: Concentration Camp Heights - Steven Leonard Jacobs/Rolf J.
Goebel: A Jewish-German Dialogue.
The Editor:
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Peter Meister teaches German at the University of Alabama in
Huntsville. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania (BA) and the
University of Virginia (MA, PhD). He has written "The Healing Female in
the German Courtly Romance" and edited "Arthurian Literature and
Christianity: Notes from the Twentieth Century".
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