Noah Isenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594000 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noah Isenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noah |
| FAMILY NAME | Isenberg |
| SIGNATURE | ISENBERG N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wesleyan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Cinematic Salvo from Interwar Austria
Occasioned by the centenary of Die Stadt ohne Juden (The City Without Jews, 1924), Hans-Karl Breslauer’s long-forgotten film, this article revisits Hugo Bettauer’s eponymous, best-selling novel on which it was based, exploring its remarkably wide and impassioned reception, and recognizing the ways in which Breslauer and his crew went about translating it to the screen. The article applies renewed attention to the extended cast and crew involved i…
Barbara Hales and Valerie Weinstein, editors. Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema
Billy Wilder on Assignment
Introduction
Introduction
On the Matter of Method in Modernist German-Jewish Studies
The Work of Walter Benjamin in the Age of Information
The kind of thinking that Benjamin embodies today, remarked Siegfried Kracauer somewhat ruefully in 1928 essay, has fallen into oblivion.2 Reviewing Benjamin's two book publications of that same year, Der Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels [The Origin of the German Tragic Drama] and Einbahnstrasse [One-Way Street] the only two major books published under his name in his lifetime Kracauer perceived in Benjamin a type of thinking that is foreign t…
Between Redemption and Doom
Zeit der Zasur
The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany
"Critical Post-Judaism"; or, Reinventing a Yiddish Sensibility in a Postmodern Age
Within months of each other, two articles on Yiddish language and culture appeared in the public press during the summer of 1996. First, in the pages of The New Republic, Harvard's chair of Yiddish Studies. Ruth Wisse, addressed the question of a Yiddish revival in a skeptical, even pessimistic, piece titled "Shul Daze: Is Yiddish Back from the Dead?" Wisse contends that Yiddish no longer has any validity as a vital cultural idiom, and that as it…
Melancholy Dialectics
Kafka and Prag
Everyone's Darling
Over the past eighty years Kafka has been appropriated by every conceivable critical camp, encompassing the entire gamut of the intellectual tradition of the West, including its postmodern and feminist critics. Yet, as this study shows for the first time, there is an underlying unity in all the diversity. What emerges from the critical Tower of Babel is that, at the core of Kafka's art, there lies a consciously constructed ambiguity which cannot …
Walter Benjamin for Children
In light of the legendary difficulty of Benjamin's works, it is a strange and intriguing fact that from 1929 to 1933 the great critic and cultural theorist wrote--and broadcast--numerous scripts, on the order of fireside chats, for children. Invited to speak on whatever subject he considered appropriate, Benjamin talked to the children of Frankfurt and Berlin about the destruction of Pompeii, an earthquake in Lisbon, and a railroad disaster at th…
The Work of Walter Benjamin in the Age of Information
The kind of thinking that Benjamin embodies today, remarked Siegfried Kracauer somewhat ruefully in 1928 essay, has fallen into oblivion.2 Reviewing Benjamin's two book publications of that same year, Der Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels [The Origin of the German Tragic Drama] and Einbahnstrasse [One-Way Street] the only two major books published under his name in his lifetime Kracauer perceived in Benjamin a type of thinking that is foreign t…
Walter Benjamin for Children
In light of the legendary difficulty of Benjamin's works, it is a strange and intriguing fact that from 1929 to 1933 the great critic and cultural theorist wrote--and broadcast--numerous scripts, on the order of fireside chats, for children. Invited to speak on whatever subject he considered appropriate, Benjamin talked to the children of Frankfurt and Berlin about the destruction of Pompeii, an earthquake in Lisbon, and a railroad disaster at th…
Melancholy Dialectics
Kafka and Prag
Everyone's Darling
Over the past eighty years Kafka has been appropriated by every conceivable critical camp, encompassing the entire gamut of the intellectual tradition of the West, including its postmodern and feminist critics. Yet, as this study shows for the first time, there is an underlying unity in all the diversity. What emerges from the critical Tower of Babel is that, at the core of Kafka's art, there lies a consciously constructed ambiguity which cannot …
The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany
"Critical Post-Judaism"; or, Reinventing a Yiddish Sensibility in a Postmodern Age
Within months of each other, two articles on Yiddish language and culture appeared in the public press during the summer of 1996. First, in the pages of The New Republic, Harvard's chair of Yiddish Studies. Ruth Wisse, addressed the question of a Yiddish revival in a skeptical, even pessimistic, piece titled "Shul Daze: Is Yiddish Back from the Dead?" Wisse contends that Yiddish no longer has any validity as a vital cultural idiom, and that as it…
Between Redemption and Doom
Zeit der Zasur
The Work of Walter Benjamin in the Age of Information
The kind of thinking that Benjamin embodies today, remarked Siegfried Kracauer somewhat ruefully in 1928 essay, has fallen into oblivion.2 Reviewing Benjamin's two book publications of that same year, Der Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels [The Origin of the German Tragic Drama] and Einbahnstrasse [One-Way Street] the only two major books published under his name in his lifetime Kracauer perceived in Benjamin a type of thinking that is foreign t…
On the Matter of Method in Modernist German-Jewish Studies
Introduction
Introduction
Billy Wilder on Assignment
Barbara Hales and Valerie Weinstein, editors. Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema
A Cinematic Salvo from Interwar Austria
Occasioned by the centenary of Die Stadt ohne Juden (The City Without Jews, 1924), Hans-Karl Breslauer’s long-forgotten film, this article revisits Hugo Bettauer’s eponymous, best-selling novel on which it was based, exploring its remarkably wide and impassioned reception, and recognizing the ways in which Breslauer and his crew went about translating it to the screen. The article applies renewed attention to the extended cast and crew involved i…
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