Frank Stern – författare

Intended to appeal to both Christians and Jews,A Rabbi Looks at Jesus' Parables is an introduction to the teachings of Jesus, and compares the similarities and differences in Jesus' thinking to other Jewish sources from first-century Palestine. Each chapter uncovers hidden messages within each of Jesus' parables, and discusses each parable within its first-century religious and historical context. The book attempts to build bridges of understanding between Christians and Jews by exploring the notion that we share a common history.

Intended to appeal to both Christians and Jews,A Rabbi Looks at Jesus'' Parables is an introduction to the teachings of Jesus, and compares the similarities and differences in Jesus'' thinking to other Jewish sources from first-century Palestine. Each chapter uncovers hidden messages within each of Jesus'' parables, and discusses each parable within its first-century religious and historical context. The book attempts to build bridges of understanding between Christians and Jews by exploring the notion that we share a common history.

This collection of essays is devoted to the Jewish themes that ran through Lion Feuchtwanger’s life, works and worlds. Beginning with a selection of Feuchtwanger’s unpublished writings, speeches, and interviews, the volume examines the author’s approaches to Jewish history, Zionism, Judaism’s relationship to early Christianity and to eastern religions, and Jewish identity through his works, above all his historical fiction. Essays also trace translations of his works into English and Russian, and the meaning of his writing for various communities of Jewish and non-Jewish readers in Britain, North America, and the Soviet Union. A final section frames the issues around Feuchtwanger and Jewishness more broadly by considering the condition of exile and expanding the focus to communities of émigré writers and political figures in North America and beyond.

Der Sammelband beschäftigt sich mit der Anwendung kulturwissenschaftlicher Ansätze im zentral- und südosteuropäischen Kontext. Zu Wort kommen Forscherinnen und Forscher, die sich mit einschlägigen Fragen im Bereich von Kulturanalyse und Kulturwissenschaft beschäftigen. Die film- und literaturwissenschaftlichen Aufsätze verbindet die Bezugnahme auf historische Ereignisse sowie deren kulturellen Hintergrund, den wir ansonsten nur auf der Ebene des Politischen wahrnehmen. Mit Blick auf konkrete Beispiele werden dabei methodische und theoretische Fragen zu Alterität, Raum, Gedächtnis & Erinnerung sowie Identität thematisiert und entfaltet.