Nexus 1

Nexus is the official publication of the biennial German Jewish Studies Workshop at Duke University the first ongoing forum in North America for German Jewish studies. It publishes innovative research in German Jewish Studies and serves as a venue for introducing new directions in the field analyzing the development and definition of the field itself and considering the place of German Jewish Studies within the disciplines of both German Studies and Jewish Studies. Additionally it examines issues of pedagogy and programming at the undergraduate graduate and community levels. The contributions are organized in three sections according to their approach to German Jewish Studies: theoretical and philosophical literary-historical or approaches that focus on the Jew(s) in today's Germany. ~~~~~~~ CONTRIBUTORS: Nicola Behrmann Juliette Brungs Katja Garloff Sander L. Gilman Jeffrey A. Grossman Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich Michael G. Levine Elizabeth Loentz Agnes C. Mueller Todd Samuel Presner Lisa Silverman David Suchoff. ~~~~~~~ EDITORS: WILLIAM C. DONAHUE is Professor in German in Jewish Studies and in the Program in Literature at Duke University where he is also a member of the Jewish Studies Executive Committee and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature. MARTHA B. HELFER is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of German Russian and Eastern European Languages and Literatures and an affiliate member of the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University.