German Literature between Faiths

The Editor: Peter Meister teaches German at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania (BA) and the University of Virginia (M.A., Ph.D.). He has written The Healing Female in the German Courtly Romance and edited Arthurian Literature and Christianity: Notes from the Twentieth Century.

• Contents: Peter Meister: Preface – Lawrence E. Frizzell: Jew and Christian in the New Testament – G. Ronald Murphy, S.J.: The Jews in the Heliand – Danielle Buschinger (tr. Kwaku Gyasi): Two Sages of Troyes: Rashi and Chrétien – Debra L. Stoudt: Parallels between Jewish and Christian Mystical Experiences in Medieval Germany – Albrecht Classen: Jewish-Christian Relations in Medieval Literature – Manfred Voigts: Three Rings: Mendelssohn - Nathan - Lessing – G. Ronald Murphy, S.J.: Precious Crumbs: Home... and Hansel... and Gretel – Peter Meister: Two Temptation Scenes: Jesus and Faust – William C. McDonald: «Do I Not Hear the Jordan Rippling?» Heine the Hebrew? – Manfred Voigts: Franz Kafka at the Entrance to Torah – Kelly Cherry: Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus: A Dialogue Volume – Albert H. Friedlander: Germany at its Best: Concentration Camp Heights – Steven Leonard Jacobs/Rolf J. Goebel: A Jewish-German Dialogue.