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Nexus is the official publication of the biennial German Jewish Studies Workshop, which was inaugurated at Duke University in 2009, and is now held at the University of Notre Dame. Together, Nexus and the Workshop constitute the first ongoing forum in North America for German Jewish Studies. Nexus publishes innovative research in German Jewish Studies, introducing new directions, analyzing the development and definition of the field, and considering its place vis-à-vis both German Studies and Jewish Studies. Additionally, it examines issues of pedagogy and programming at the undergraduate, graduate, and community levels. Nexus 3 features special forum sections on Heinrich Heine and Karl Kraus. Renowned Heine scholar Jeffrey Sammons offers a magisterial critical retrospective on this towering "German Jewish" author, followed by a response from Ritchie Robertson, while the dean of Kraus scholarship, Edward Timms, reflects on the challenges and rewards oftranslating German Jewish dialect into English. Paul Reitter provides a thoughtful response.
Contributors: Angela Botelho, Jay Geller, Abigail Gillman, Jeffrey A. Grossman, Leo Lensing, Georg Mein, Paul Reitter, Ritchie Robertson, Jeffrey L. Sammons, Egon Schwarz, Edward Timms, Liliane Weissberg, Emma Woelk.
William Collins Donahue is the John J. Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities at the University of Notre Dame, where he chairs the Department of German and Russian. Martha B. Helfer is Professor of German and an affiliate member of the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
In The Seeds of a Fascist International, Hannah Arendt analyzes one of the most widely distributed and most impactful documents in international anti-Semitism: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion . Her initial question— why people believed that the Protocols were real, even though they were obviously a forgery—goes to the heart of the strange fascination with this text. The present essay thus sets forth Arendt's explanation for the text's extensive impact and appeal in light of her concept of public space—that is to say, making thinking public. Additionally, Arendt's explanation demonstrates the attraction as well as the necessarily non-literary dimension of ideological texts like the Protocols.
IN JUNE 1945, HANNAH ARENDT published an article entitled The Seeds of a Fascist International in the New York journal Jewish Frontier. One year later, she sent the essay to Karl Jaspers, who at that time was working on the journal Die Wandlung, in which he occasionally published Arendt's articles. A German-language publication did not occur, however, because Jaspers was preparing his text “Kopfzerbrechen.” Jaspers did not fully share Arendt's convictions about the close connection between anti- Semitism and fascism in historical context. Arendt's essay analyzed one of the most widely distributed and most persistent documents in international anti-Semitism: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Now one might think that an analysis of this topic would have been perfectly placed in Germany at the time, just after twelve years of National Socialist rule had come to an end. Yet the strange history of the reception of the Protocols included the fact that they were not just distributed worldwide—and they still are—but rather that very prominent supporters also participated in their dissemination. In the USA, none other than Henry Ford published a modified “American” version text of the Protocols with extensive commentary. Translations of Ford's version appeared in France, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Bulgaria, Italy, Greece, and finally in Japan and China as well. This meant that Ford made a significant contribution to the distribution of the Protocols; seven years later, though, he officially distanced himself from the text in a legal dispute. In this context, the USA was certainly the right place to publish Arendt's article.
Sustaining the regular flow of water from mountain forests is important for downstream stakeholders in seasonally dry tropical countries, and a watershed payment for ecosystem services (PES) scheme that links rural ecosystem service providers to urban water users through economic transfers may help to maintain water supply and forest habitat. A CARE/WWF project in the Uluguru Mountains of Tanzania has established a pilot watershed PES scheme. We trace the development of this scheme and outline its initial impacts. Memoranda of Understanding between companies in Dar es Salaam (the downstream water users) and farmers in the mountains provide the framework to deliver tangible financial benefits to local people, help change patterns of land use and potentially improve water quality. A number of lessons learned from this project are relevant for similar schemes elsewhere in the region. Overcoming the various challenges is essential for expanding the current pilot project to a scale where it delivers measurable changes in water quality for downstream users.
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