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Argues that the social history of early-20th-century Germany has elided an important cultural and social phenomenon by not including the story of German Jewish women and suicide. Nothing Happened is a historiographic intervention that operates in conversation and in tension with contemporary theory about trauma and the reconstruction of emotion in history.

Collects work from the most prominent scholars in the Jewish Language Studies field to generate distinctively new historical, cultural, theoretical, and scientific approaches to this topic of ongoing interest. The chapters consider the cultural politics of the myths, fantasies, and anxieties of linguistic multiplicity in the history, cultures, folkways, and politics of global Jewry.

Grapples with the critical and subversive dimension of Franz Kafka's writings, which is often hidden or masked by the fabulistic character of the work. Loewy's reading has generated controversy, because of its distance from the usual canon of literary criticism about the Prague writer, but the book has been well received in its original French edition.

Through and in translation, poets have introduced new poetic styles, languages, and forms into their own writing, sometimes changing the course of literary history in the process. Strange Cocktail is the first comprehensive study of this phenomenon in modern Hebrew literature of the late nineteenth century to the present day.