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Abstract: This forum brings together eight scholars of various disciplines who take stock of queer perspectives on Jewish Studies, introduce new lines of research, and show the many ways in which queering Jewish Studies energizes the field. The authors also discuss the particular promise of Jewish trans studies as well as the nexus of queers and Jews in the age of rising populism. Overall, the forum serves as a primer for those interested in how to teach or do queer Jewish Studies.

Jewish Studies, the first volume in a groundbreaking new series, Key Words in Jewish Studies, introduces the basic approach of the series by organizing discussion around key concepts in the field that have emerged over the last two centuries: history and science, race and religion, self and community, identity and memory. The book is oriented by contemporary critical theory, especially feminist and postcolonial studies, and the multidisciplinary approaches of cultural studies

"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."--Page 4 of cover

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: German-Jewish Studies for the Twenty-First Century -- Part I - From the Early Modern Period to the Nineteenth Century: Families, Texts, and Religious Identities -- Chapter 1 - Le-Dor va-Dor or Discontinuities? Family Networks and the Transnational Turn in (German-)Jewish Studies -- Chapter 2 - Old Yiddish Texts in German-Jewish Culture: Diachronic Translation and the (Re)turn to the Past -- Chapter 3 - Orthodoxy as a German-Jewish Legacy -- Part II - Nation, Belonging, and Communities in the Early Twentieth Century -- Chapter 4 - Contested Contextualizations: Relating German-Jewish History to the History of Colonialism -- Chapter 5 - The Place of Yiddish in German-Jewish Studies -- Chapter 6 - Metaphysik der Gottferne: Negativity, Intellectual Communities, and German-Jewish Studies -- Part III - Migration, Exile, and Diaspora in the 1930s and Beyond -- Chapter 7 - Art without Borders: Artist Rahel Szalit-Marcus and Jewish Visual Culture -- Chapter 8 - Woman, Scientist, and Jew: The Forced Migration of Berta Ottenstein -- Chapter 9 - A Global Network and Diaspora of German-Jewish Historians and Archives: Reappraising the Enduring Legacy of German Jewry -- Part IV - After 1945: Memory, Coming to Terms with the Past, Place, and Displacement -- Chapter 10 - Jewish Mourning in the Aftermath of the Holocaust: Tending Individual Graves in Occupied Germany, 1945-49 -- Chapter 11 - German-Jewish Fiction on the Holocaust: The Ethics of Narrative Causality in Edgar Hilsenrath's Disfigured Narration -- Chapter 12 - (Un-)Jewish Musical Spaces in Munich: Past and Present -- Epilogue: The Dynamic Relationship of "German" and "Jewish" -- Index.