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Fresh Pages: Honoring New Works by Kata Gellen and Daniel Herskowitz
Thursday, September 10,
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Speaker(s): Kata Gellen and Daniel Herskowitz
Join the Center for Jewish Studies Fall 2026 welcome reception which will also celebrate the recent publications of Duke faculty members Kata Gellen and Daniel Herskowitz. Dinner will be provided.
Kata Gellen, Galicia as a Literary Idea: Jewish Eastern Europe in the Writings of Joseph Roth and Soma Morgenstern. (University of Toronto Press, 2026). In the decades following the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, the former province of Galicia inspired the literary imagination of two German-language natives of this region, Joseph Roth and Soma Morgenstern. Galicia as a Literary Idea explores what their engagement with Galicia means for modern Jewish culture, history, and memory.
Gellen is Associate Professor of German Studies and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies. Her main areas of research and teaching include German literary modernism, German-Jewish studies, postwar Austrian literature and cinema, film studies, and sound studies. She is the author of Kafka and Noise: The Discovery of Cinematic Sound in Literary Modernism (Northwestern University Press, 2019) and numerous essays on writers including Robert Musil, Elias Canetti, Rainer Maria Rilke, Gertrud Kolmar, Günther Anders, and Thomas Bernhard, as well as essays on Weimar Cinema. She is currently writing a book on contemporary transgressive Austrian cinema called Ulrich Seidl, Brutal Humanist.
Daniel Herskowitz, The Judeo-Christian Thought of Franz Rosenzweig. (Liverpool University Press, 2025) offers a new interpretation of Franz Rosenzweig's magnum opus The Star of Redemption, commonly treated as one of the high points of modern Jewish thought, and demonstrates its profound immersion in the Protestant conceptuality of its time
Herskowitz is the Smart Family Associate Professor of Religious Studies. Before this he was a research fellow and lecturer at the University of Oxford. He was also a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University. He is the author of two books, Heidegger and His Jewish Reception (Cambridge), and The Judeo-Christian Thought of Franz Rosenzweig (The British Academy). He is the editor of Hans Jonas: The Early Years (Routledge) and Studies on the Jewish Experience (Brill). He is currently writing a book on the history and politics of Nostra Aetate.
Kata Gellen, Galicia as a Literary Idea: Jewish Eastern Europe in the Writings of Joseph Roth and Soma Morgenstern. (University of Toronto Press, 2026). In the decades following the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, the former province of Galicia inspired the literary imagination of two German-language natives of this region, Joseph Roth and Soma Morgenstern. Galicia as a Literary Idea explores what their engagement with Galicia means for modern Jewish culture, history, and memory.
Gellen is Associate Professor of German Studies and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies. Her main areas of research and teaching include German literary modernism, German-Jewish studies, postwar Austrian literature and cinema, film studies, and sound studies. She is the author of Kafka and Noise: The Discovery of Cinematic Sound in Literary Modernism (Northwestern University Press, 2019) and numerous essays on writers including Robert Musil, Elias Canetti, Rainer Maria Rilke, Gertrud Kolmar, Günther Anders, and Thomas Bernhard, as well as essays on Weimar Cinema. She is currently writing a book on contemporary transgressive Austrian cinema called Ulrich Seidl, Brutal Humanist.
Daniel Herskowitz, The Judeo-Christian Thought of Franz Rosenzweig. (Liverpool University Press, 2025) offers a new interpretation of Franz Rosenzweig's magnum opus The Star of Redemption, commonly treated as one of the high points of modern Jewish thought, and demonstrates its profound immersion in the Protestant conceptuality of its time
Herskowitz is the Smart Family Associate Professor of Religious Studies. Before this he was a research fellow and lecturer at the University of Oxford. He was also a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University. He is the author of two books, Heidegger and His Jewish Reception (Cambridge), and The Judeo-Christian Thought of Franz Rosenzweig (The British Academy). He is the editor of Hans Jonas: The Early Years (Routledge) and Studies on the Jewish Experience (Brill). He is currently writing a book on the history and politics of Nostra Aetate.