Mark H Gelber
Biographic Data
| ID | 1235695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark H Gelber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark H |
| FAMILY NAME | Gelber |
| SIGNATURE | GELBER M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ruth Klüger on Vienna and Austria
Ruth Klüger on Vienna and AustriaAn Interview Mark H. Gelber (bio) and Ruth Klüger Ruth Klüger (1931–2020) passed away on October 5, 2020, in the United States. Born in Vienna and deported to Theresienstadt, she survived Auschwitz and the Shoah together with her mother. After living in Germany for a short time after World War II, she immigrated to New York. She was educated in the United States and received degrees in English literature as well a…
A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine (review)
Reviewed by: A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine Mark H. Gelber Roger F. Cook, eds. A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2002. Pp. xii + 373. The editor of this volume, Roger Cook, has brought together some very fine Heine scholars from North America and Europe in order to produce a collection of essays that might address those aspects of Heine wh…
German Literature, Jewish Critics (review)
Reviewed by: German Literature, Jewish Critics Mark H. Gelber Stephen D. Dowden and Meike G. Werner, eds. German Literature, Jewish Critics. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2002. Pp. xxxiv + 321. This volume contains the lectures, responses, panel discussions, and audience participation from a symposium held in 1997 at Brandeis University. Five years is a long time to wait for a conference vo…
Confrontations / Accommodations
This volume, edited in honour of Professor Jeffrey L. Sammons of Yale University on the occasion of his retirement, presents a series of incisive essays on German-Jewish literary and cultural history from the Enlightenment until the rise of Nazism. Key Jewish figures, including Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Börne, Rahel Varnhagen, Berthold Auerbach, Arthur Schnitzler, Franz Kafka, and Jacob Wassermann, are considered in excitingly new scholarly framewor…
Melancholy Pride
This study attempts to analyze the multi-faceted and complicated relationship between the Central European, Germanic-Austrian cultural milieu and the Jewish national literature and culture which evolved within it at the turn of the last century. Issues regarding the construction and differentiation of a modern Jewish national identity and culture as an aspect of Cultural Zionism are central to this project, as are the problematical literary and c…
The Jewish Reception of Heinrich Heine
The Jewish Reception of Heinrich Heine
Pedagogical guidelines for literary antisemitism
Literary antisemitism presents problems for both teachers and students. Censorship is wrong and impractical; ignoring antisemitism in texts might lead to the reinforcement of antisemitic attitudes. Teachers should therefore encourage student engagement with the problem and discuss literary antisemitism openly
Thomas Mann and Zionism
Faschismus und Avantgarde
Ethnic Pluralism and Germanization in the Works of Karl Emil Franzos (1848-1904)
Two distinct, although by no means mutually exclusive, critical approaches to the works of Karl Emil Franzos have dominated considerations of his career.' The first approach, biographical in nature, endeavors to comprehend the literary output as a result of personal data culled from his curriculum vitae. The second one, literary-historical and genre-oriented, attempts to classify and evaluate Franzos's stories under the rubric of Ghettoliteratur,…
Thomas Mann and antisemitism
An examination of Mann's literary works and his personality reveals a complex attitude to fews. Literary antisemitism was common in his novels and stories but during his lifetime he denounced antisemitism and joined forces with Jewish organizations to fight Nazism
An Alternate Reading of the Role of the Jewish Scholar in Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben
Das judische Buch im Dritten Reich. Erster Teil
The "Geas" in an Illinois Superstition
The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" or "Old Dandoo" (Child 277)
No prominent works on this page.
The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin" or "Old Dandoo" (Child 277)
The "Geas" in an Illinois Superstition
Das judische Buch im Dritten Reich. Erster Teil
Faschismus und Avantgarde
Ethnic Pluralism and Germanization in the Works of Karl Emil Franzos (1848-1904)
Two distinct, although by no means mutually exclusive, critical approaches to the works of Karl Emil Franzos have dominated considerations of his career.' The first approach, biographical in nature, endeavors to comprehend the literary output as a result of personal data culled from his curriculum vitae. The second one, literary-historical and genre-oriented, attempts to classify and evaluate Franzos's stories under the rubric of Ghettoliteratur,…
Thomas Mann and antisemitism
An examination of Mann's literary works and his personality reveals a complex attitude to fews. Literary antisemitism was common in his novels and stories but during his lifetime he denounced antisemitism and joined forces with Jewish organizations to fight Nazism
An Alternate Reading of the Role of the Jewish Scholar in Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben
Thomas Mann and Zionism
Pedagogical guidelines for literary antisemitism
Literary antisemitism presents problems for both teachers and students. Censorship is wrong and impractical; ignoring antisemitism in texts might lead to the reinforcement of antisemitic attitudes. Teachers should therefore encourage student engagement with the problem and discuss literary antisemitism openly
The Jewish Reception of Heinrich Heine
The Jewish Reception of Heinrich Heine
Melancholy Pride
This study attempts to analyze the multi-faceted and complicated relationship between the Central European, Germanic-Austrian cultural milieu and the Jewish national literature and culture which evolved within it at the turn of the last century. Issues regarding the construction and differentiation of a modern Jewish national identity and culture as an aspect of Cultural Zionism are central to this project, as are the problematical literary and c…
Confrontations / Accommodations
This volume, edited in honour of Professor Jeffrey L. Sammons of Yale University on the occasion of his retirement, presents a series of incisive essays on German-Jewish literary and cultural history from the Enlightenment until the rise of Nazism. Key Jewish figures, including Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Börne, Rahel Varnhagen, Berthold Auerbach, Arthur Schnitzler, Franz Kafka, and Jacob Wassermann, are considered in excitingly new scholarly framewor…
German Literature, Jewish Critics (review)
Reviewed by: German Literature, Jewish Critics Mark H. Gelber Stephen D. Dowden and Meike G. Werner, eds. German Literature, Jewish Critics. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2002. Pp. xxxiv + 321. This volume contains the lectures, responses, panel discussions, and audience participation from a symposium held in 1997 at Brandeis University. Five years is a long time to wait for a conference vo…
A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine (review)
Reviewed by: A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine Mark H. Gelber Roger F. Cook, eds. A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2002. Pp. xii + 373. The editor of this volume, Roger Cook, has brought together some very fine Heine scholars from North America and Europe in order to produce a collection of essays that might address those aspects of Heine wh…
Ruth Klüger on Vienna and Austria
Ruth Klüger on Vienna and AustriaAn Interview Mark H. Gelber (bio) and Ruth Klüger Ruth Klüger (1931–2020) passed away on October 5, 2020, in the United States. Born in Vienna and deported to Theresienstadt, she survived Auschwitz and the Shoah together with her mother. After living in Germany for a short time after World War II, she immigrated to New York. She was educated in the United States and received degrees in English literature as well a…
Art (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · History (9 works) · Judaism (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · German (6 works) · Theology (6 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Literature (5 works)