This provocative study asks why we have held on to vivid images of the NazisÕ total control
of the visual and performing arts, even though research has shown that many artists and …

The Second World War went beyond previous military conflicts. It was not only about specific
geographical gains or economic goals, but also about the brutal and lasting reshaping of …

Missing from the canonical Gospels and out of the spotlights that have been shone on Q and
the Nag Hammadi library, there exists a hardly tapped source of extracanonical sayings of …

The name “Shylock” never once shows up in all of Freud's published writings. Yet amongst
all Shakespeare's characters, the compelling figure of the Jew of Venice is one who, for a …

“After those years, let's take our hats off to Shylock!” 1 This was the heading for a review of
Hans Schalla's widely publicized 1952 production of The Merchant of Venice at the Bochum …

This article attends to the ongoing exploration of archives—spurred in part by the digital
revolution—that have recently given way to a plethora of rediscoveries pertaining to the work …

In the Jessica chapter of his 1838 Shakespeare's Maidens and Women, Heinrich Heine
provocatively identified Shylock as a “well-trained werewolf.” Was Heine also alluding to the …

This dissertation examines the interplay of language politics and romantic politics in German
and Yiddish literature confronting the challenges faced by Judaism in the long nineteenth …

Performed at regular intervals since 1634, the passion play at Oberammergau in Bavaria
has in recent decades become a byword for the allegedly timeless continuities of European …

This dissertation explores the various ways in which film uses theatre by representing it
onscreen. Neither documentary recordings of theatre nor screen adaptations of plays, films …