Mark H. Gelber

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Mark H. Gelber (2013)

Mark H. Gelber (born January 21, 1951 in New York City ) is an American literary scholar.

Life

Mark H. Gelber studied literature and German at Wesleyan University (BA 1972) and at Yale University (MA 1974; M. Phil. 1979) and received his doctorate in 1980 with the dissertation Aspects of Literary Anti-Semitism: Dickens and Freytag .

Gelber went to Israel in 1980 for postdoc studies at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). He stayed at the university and became a university professor. He has headed the Research Center for Austrian and German Studies at the BGU since 2008. Gelber held a large number of guest lectureships in Europe and the USA. In particular, he researches the history of Jewish literature in Europe. In 1985 his article What is Literary Anti-Semitism? in the academic journal Jewish Social Studies .

Gelber established the International Summer University for Hebrew, Jewish and Israeli Studies in Beer Sheva in 1998, which ran until 2004 and then again in 2009. In 2001 Gelber was elected to the German Academy for Language and Poetry (Darmstadt). He was a member of the Israel Prize jury in 1996 and 2000 . His diverse academic obligations also include a seat in the academic advisory group of the Austrian Library in Exile . Gelber has been a member of the board of directors of the Jerusalem Leo Baeck Institute since 2009 .

Gelber published a commemorative publication for Solomon Liptzin in 1986 . He conducts research on Stefan Zweig and organized a congress in Salzburg in 1992. He also works for Franz Kafka , he organized an international conference in 1999 under the title Ich bin Ende oder Anfang: Kafka, Zionism and Beyond and was co-organizer of the conference Kafka after Kafka in 2015 in Beer Sheva. In 2007, the first international conference on literary anti-Semitism was held in Bielefeld . In 2010 Gelber organized the conference Thirty Years of German-Jewish Studies , which met in Beer Sheva and Jerusalem.

Fonts (selection)

  • An Alternate Reading of the Role of the Jewish Scholar in Gustav Freytag's Soll und haben . In: The Germanic Review , Vol. LVIII, No. 2, 1983, pp. 83-88
  • What is Literary Anti-Semitism? In: Jewish Social Studies, Columbia University, 47, 1, 1985, pp. 1-20
  • (Ed.): Identity and Ethos: A Festschrift for Sol Liptzin on the Occasion of His 85th Birthday. New York: Peter Lang, 1986, ISBN 3-89693-266-7
  • (Ed.): Stefan Zweig today . New York: Peter Lang, 1987
  • 1916 The first issue of Martin Buber's German-Jewish journal "Der Jude" appears. In: Sander L. Gilman , Jack Zipes (ed.): Yale companion to Jewish writing and thought in German culture 1096-1996. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1997, pp. 343-347
  • Melancholy pride: nation, race, and gender in the German literature of cultural zionism . Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2000 ISBN 978-3-484-65123-4
  • Literary anti-Semitism after the Shoah from a comparative perspective: Paul de Man and Mel Gibson's “Passion”. In: Klaus-Michael Bogdal , Klaus Holz , Matthias N. Lorenz (eds.): Literary anti-Semitism after Auschwitz . Stuttgart: JB Metzler 2007, ISBN 978-3-476-02240-0 , pp. 75-84
  • (Ed.): Theodor Herzl: from Europe to Zion . Conditio Judaica; 67, 2007
  • with Jakob Hessing, Robert Jütte (eds.): Integration and Exclusion: Studies on German-Jewish literary and cultural history from the early modern period to the present; Festschrift for Hans Otto Horch on his 65th birthday. Walter de Gruyter, 2009, ISBN 978-3-484-62006-3
  • Chess novella. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 5: Pr-Sy. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2014, ISBN 978-3-476-02505-0 , pp. 335–339.
  • Stefan Zweig, Judaism and Zionism . Innsbruck: Studien-Verlag, 2014 ISBN 978-3-7065-5303-2
  • with Birger Vanwesenbeeck (Ed.): Stefan Zweig and world literature: twenty-first century perspectives , Camden House, Rochester (New York), 2014, ISBN 1-57113-924-9
  • Literary anti-Semitism . In: Hans Otto Horch (Ed.): Handbook of German-Jewish Literature . Berlin: de Gruyter, 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-028256-6 , p. 38 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Austrian Exile Studies in Literature House Vienna
  2. ↑ Literary anti-Semitism after Auschwitz , at hsozkult , 2007
personal data
SURNAME Gelber, Mark H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City