This book-series, initiated in 1992, has an interdisciplinary orientation; it comprises research monographs, collections of essays and annotated editions from the 18th century to the present. The term German-Jewish literature refers to the literary work of Jewish authors writing in German to the extent that Jewish aspects can be identified in these. However, the image of Jews among non-Jewish authors, often determined by anti-Semitism, is also a factor in the history of German-Jewish relations as reflected in literature. This series provides an appropriate forum for research into the whole problematic area.

This book-series, initiated in 1992, has an interdisciplinary orientation; it is published in English and German and comprises research monographs, collections of essays and editions of source texts dealing with German-Jewish literary and cultural history, in particular from the period covering the 18th to 20th centuries. The closer definition of the term German-Jewish applied to literature and culture is an integral part of its historical development. Primarily, the decisive factor is that from the middle of the 18th century German gradually became the language of choice for Jews, and Jewish authors started writing in German, rather than Yiddish or Hebrew, even when they were articulating Jewish themes. This process is directly connected an historical change in mentality and social factors which led to a gradual opening towards a non-Jewish environment, which in its turn was becoming more open. In the Enlightenment, German society becomes the standard of reference initially for an intellectual elite. Against this background, the term German-Jewish literature refers to the literary work of Jewish authors writing in German to the extent that explicit or implicit Jewish themes, motifs, modes of thought or models can be identified in them.From the beginning of the 19th century at the latest, however, the image of Jews in the work of non-Jewish writers, determined mainly by anti-Semitism, becomes a factor in German-Jewish literature. There is a tension between Jewish writers' authentic reference to Jewish traditions or existence and the anti-Semitic marking and discrimination against everything Jewish which determines the overall development of the history of German-Jewish literature and culture. This series provides an appropriate forum for research into the whole problematic area.

Inhalt
Reinhold Mayer, Zur Entstehungsgeschichte des »Stern der Erlösung«. Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik, Hans Ehrenbergs Einfluß auf die Entstehung des »Stern der Erlösung«. Heinz-Jürgen Görtz, »Der Stern der Erlösung« als Kommentar: Rudolf Ehrenberg und Franz Rosenzweig. Martin Brasser, Rosenstock und Rosenzweig über Sprache. Die »Angewandte Seelenkunde« im »Stern der Erlösung«. Inken Rühle, Leben im Angesicht des Todes. Zum Verständnis des Todes im »Stern der Erlösung«. Clemens Thoma, Franz Rosenzweig: Deuter von Krieg, Politik und philosophisch-theologischer Entwicklung. Haupttendenzen im »Zweistromland«. Robert Gibbs, Gesetz in »The Star or Redemption«. Almut Sh. Bruckstein, Zur Phänomenologie der jüdischen Liturgie in Rosenzweigs »Stern der Erlösung«. Ein Versuch über das Schweigen mit Husserl. - Rivka Horwitz, The Shaping of Rosenzweig's Identity According to the Gritli Letters. - Francesco Paolo Ciglia, Auf der Spur Augustins. - Jörg Disse, Die Philosophie Immanuel Kants im »Stern der Erlösung«. Ein Kommentar. - Myriam Bienenstock, Auf Schellings Spuren im »Stern«. - Cordula Hufnagel, Nietzsche. - Pierfrancesco Fiorato/Hartwig Wiedebach, Hermann Cohen im »Stern der Erlösung«. Stücke eines Rosenzweig-Kommentars. - Hans-Christoph Askani, Schöpfung der Welt und Grammatik der Sprache. Zum Verhältnis von philosophischem Gedanken und biblischem Text im »Stern der Erlösung«. - Yehoyada Amir, Die Offenbarung Gottes und des Menschen aus den Quellen des Judentums. Eine Studie zu Rosenzweigs »Stern der Erlösung«. - Inken Rühle, Das Hohelied - ein weltliches Liebeslied als Kernbuch der Offenbarung? Zur Bedeutung der Auslegungsgeschichte von »Schir haSchirim« im »Stern der Erlösung«. - Norbert M. Samuelson, Tracing Rosenzweig's Literary Sources: Psalm 115. - Joseph Turner, A Reading of Psalm 90 in Light of Franz Rosenzweig's Notion of Time. Ephraim Meir, Transition, Threshold and Gate in »Star of Redemption«. - Alexander P. J. van Ligten, Übersetzen als Kommentar. - Gesine Palmer, Franz Rosenzweigs »Stern der Erlösung« als Kommentar ohne Text. - Bernhard Casper, Franz Rosenzweig. Die Herausforderung zu einer Zukunft. - Christoph Nöthlings, Gesamtkunstwerk und Weltendrama. Die Opernästhetik Richard Wagners als Vorbild für die Komposition des »Stern der Erlösung«.