Samuel J Kessler
Biographic Data
| ID | 3864361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel J Kessler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel J |
| FAMILY NAME | Kessler |
| SIGNATURE | KESSLER S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gustavus Adolphus College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ein nationalsozialistisch-katholisches Syndrom
Reviewed by: Ein nationalsozialistisch-katholisches Syndrom: Zugänge zum Werk von Thomas Bernhard by Josef P. Mautner Samuel J. Kessler Josef P. Mautner, Ein nationalsozialistisch-katholisches Syndrom: Zugänge zum Werk von Thomas Bernhard. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2021. 135 pp. In this compact yet powerful book, literary scholar and Catholic theologian Josef Mautner reveals the many ways that the novels of Thomas Bernhard revolve around …
My Program Is Still Broader Than the Sea
This study makes available for the first time five previously unknown letters from Gershom Scholem to Abraham Joshua Heschel, sent between 1940 and 1953. A contextualizing introduction precedes a transcription and annotated English translation of the original Hebrew letters.
My Father’s Face”
This article is about the occurrence and centrality of distinctly Jewish ideas and ritual practices in Philip Roth’s Nemesis (2010), Indignation (2008), and Everyman (2006). In these three novels, Roth constructed characters whose existential crises most often come during or when meditating upon moments of Jewish ritual or Jewish theological expression, and what emerges is that the when, where, and how moments in which Roth’s protagonists interac…
Comical Modernity
Reviewed by: Comical Modernity: Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna by Heidi Hakkarainen Samuel J. Kessler Heidi Hakkarainen, Comical Modernity: Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna. Austrian and Habsburg Studies 23. New York: Berghahn, 2018. 280 pp. One of my favorite cartoons reprinted in Heidi Hakkarainen's new book Comical Modernity: Popular H…
Design Dialogue
Reviewed by: Design Dialogue: Jews, Culture, and Viennese Modernism/Design Dialog: Juden, Kultur, und Wiener Moderne ed. by Elana Shapira Samuel J. Kessler Elana Shapira, ed., Design Dialogue: Jews, Culture, and Viennese Modernism/ Design Dialog: Juden, Kultur, und Wiener Moderne. Vienna: Böhlau, 2018. 475 pp. In this ambitious and beautiful book, Elana Shapira and a team of scholars, architects, and curators seek to understand the relationship b…
Franz Kafkas Roman Das Schloß
Reviewed by: Franz Kafkas Roman Das Schloß: Der moderne Mythos des Bewusstseins by Halina Nitropisch Samuel J. Kessler Halina Nitropisch, Franz Kafkas Roman Das Schloß: Der moderne Mythos des Bewusstseins. Würzburger Wissenschaftlische Schriften 858. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2017. 166 pp. Much has been and will continue to be written about Franz Kafka, one of the most fascinating and beguiling writers of the twentieth century. Kafka’s oe…
Veza Canetti im Kontext des Austromarxismus by Vreni Amsler
Reviewed by: Veza Canetti im Kontext des Austromarxismus by Vreni Amsler Samuel J. Kessler Vreni Amsler, Veza Canetti im Kontext des Austromarxismus. Würzburger Wissenschaftliche Schriften 869. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2017. 400 pp. Veza Canetti (née Taubner-Calderon) was born to Jewish parents in Vienna in 1897, at the height of the cultural extravagance of the fin de siècle. She completed her education in the midst of the First World W…
“Mountain of Destiny”
Reviewed by: “Mountain of Destiny”: Nanga Parbat and Its Path into the German Imagination by Harold Höbusch Samuel J. Kessler Harold Höbusch, “Mountain of Destiny”: Nanga Parbat and Its Path into the German Imagination. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Rochester: Camden House, 2016. 282 pp. Harold Höbusch’s “Mountain of Destiny”: Nanga Parbat and Its Path into the German Imagination is three books in one: a history of the G…
Systematization, Theology, and the Baroque Wunderkammern
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Systematization, Theology, and the Baroque Wunderkammern
“Mountain of Destiny”
Reviewed by: “Mountain of Destiny”: Nanga Parbat and Its Path into the German Imagination by Harold Höbusch Samuel J. Kessler Harold Höbusch, “Mountain of Destiny”: Nanga Parbat and Its Path into the German Imagination. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Rochester: Camden House, 2016. 282 pp. Harold Höbusch’s “Mountain of Destiny”: Nanga Parbat and Its Path into the German Imagination is three books in one: a history of the G…
Veza Canetti im Kontext des Austromarxismus by Vreni Amsler
Reviewed by: Veza Canetti im Kontext des Austromarxismus by Vreni Amsler Samuel J. Kessler Vreni Amsler, Veza Canetti im Kontext des Austromarxismus. Würzburger Wissenschaftliche Schriften 869. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2017. 400 pp. Veza Canetti (née Taubner-Calderon) was born to Jewish parents in Vienna in 1897, at the height of the cultural extravagance of the fin de siècle. She completed her education in the midst of the First World W…
Franz Kafkas Roman Das Schloß
Reviewed by: Franz Kafkas Roman Das Schloß: Der moderne Mythos des Bewusstseins by Halina Nitropisch Samuel J. Kessler Halina Nitropisch, Franz Kafkas Roman Das Schloß: Der moderne Mythos des Bewusstseins. Würzburger Wissenschaftlische Schriften 858. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2017. 166 pp. Much has been and will continue to be written about Franz Kafka, one of the most fascinating and beguiling writers of the twentieth century. Kafka’s oe…
Comical Modernity
Reviewed by: Comical Modernity: Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna by Heidi Hakkarainen Samuel J. Kessler Heidi Hakkarainen, Comical Modernity: Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna. Austrian and Habsburg Studies 23. New York: Berghahn, 2018. 280 pp. One of my favorite cartoons reprinted in Heidi Hakkarainen's new book Comical Modernity: Popular H…
Design Dialogue
Reviewed by: Design Dialogue: Jews, Culture, and Viennese Modernism/Design Dialog: Juden, Kultur, und Wiener Moderne ed. by Elana Shapira Samuel J. Kessler Elana Shapira, ed., Design Dialogue: Jews, Culture, and Viennese Modernism/ Design Dialog: Juden, Kultur, und Wiener Moderne. Vienna: Böhlau, 2018. 475 pp. In this ambitious and beautiful book, Elana Shapira and a team of scholars, architects, and curators seek to understand the relationship b…
My Father’s Face”
This article is about the occurrence and centrality of distinctly Jewish ideas and ritual practices in Philip Roth’s Nemesis (2010), Indignation (2008), and Everyman (2006). In these three novels, Roth constructed characters whose existential crises most often come during or when meditating upon moments of Jewish ritual or Jewish theological expression, and what emerges is that the when, where, and how moments in which Roth’s protagonists interac…
Ein nationalsozialistisch-katholisches Syndrom
Reviewed by: Ein nationalsozialistisch-katholisches Syndrom: Zugänge zum Werk von Thomas Bernhard by Josef P. Mautner Samuel J. Kessler Josef P. Mautner, Ein nationalsozialistisch-katholisches Syndrom: Zugänge zum Werk von Thomas Bernhard. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2021. 135 pp. In this compact yet powerful book, literary scholar and Catholic theologian Josef Mautner reveals the many ways that the novels of Thomas Bernhard revolve around …
My Program Is Still Broader Than the Sea
This study makes available for the first time five previously unknown letters from Gershom Scholem to Abraham Joshua Heschel, sent between 1940 and 1953. A contextualizing introduction precedes a transcription and annotated English translation of the original Hebrew letters.
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