We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of its journal, Naharaim: Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History (Zeitschrift für deutsch-jüdische Literatur und Kulturgeschichte) [Volume 15, Issue 1].

 

The heart of this issue of Naharaim is a special section entitled “Stéphane Mosès and the Invention of German Jewish Modernity,” which presents a collection of reflections, scholarly essays, and creative compositions dedicated to the memory of Stéphane Mosès (1931–2007).

 

 

Table of Contents

 

Benjamin Pollock

Introduction

 

Special Section: Stéphane Mosès and the Invention of German Jewish Modernity

 

Gabriel Motzkin

Stéphane Mosès after the Holocaust

 

Paul Mendes-Flohr

Stéphane Mosès’ Angels

 

Vivian Liska 

Stéphane Mosès’ Hope

 

Michal Govrin

Stéphane Mosès – Le Passeur Among the Ruins

 

Sharon Livne, Irene Aue-Ben-David

A German-Jewish Existence: Stéphane Mosès and the Establishment of German Literature Studies at the Hebrew University

 

Eckart Goebel

Widerruf: “Revocation” – On Hans Mayer and Stéphane Mosès

 

Galili Shahar 

Narrentum and Being-Jewish: Kafka and Benjamin

 

Bernhard Greiner

“This Nothing of a Voice”: Kafka’s Josefine Narrative as a Modern Reflection on Revelation and Language

 

Eli Schonfeld 

H’arut: A Jewish Reading of Kafka’s In the Penal Colony

 

Other Contributions

 

Heidi Stern

Diskurse protestantischer Hebraisten der Frühen Neuzeit über jüdische Kommunikationsformeln

 

Ori Werdiger 

Addendum: Scholem on Meeting Gordin in Paris in 1946