Jewish Studies Archive - Literaturwissenschaft in Berlin

Against Redeeming Catastrophe

libteam — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 14:16:56 +0000

Last month saw the passing of Ruth Klüger, one of the most influential memoirists of the Holocaust, at age 88. Jonathon Catlin revisits her literary writing, her scholarly work, and her criticism of “kitsch” aspects of Holocaust memorial culture. By Jonathon Catlin Born to a Jewish family in Vienna in 1931, Klüger was deported to […]

Der Beitrag Against Redeeming Catastrophe erschien zuerst auf Literaturwissenschaft in Berlin.

Revisiting the Jewish Museum Berlin

libteam — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 13:00:57 +0000

In its new permanent exhibition, the Jewish Museum Berlin visualizes the complex history of Jewish life in Germany, thereby challenging many traditional clichés and simplistic narratives. By Jonathon Catlin The Jewish Museum Berlin opened in 2001 and remains the largest Jewish Museum in Europe. After two years of construction, its new permanent exhibition opened to […]

Der Beitrag Revisiting the Jewish Museum Berlin erschien zuerst auf Literaturwissenschaft in Berlin.

George Mosse at One Hundred

libteam — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 10:54:33 +0000

From June 6–9, 2019, over 30 scholars gathered in Berlin at the conference “Mosse’s Europe: New Perspectives in the Study of German Judaism, Fascism, and Sexuality” to critically reassess and carry on the legacy of the pathbreaking German-Jewish historian George L. Mosse (1918–1999) on the occasion of the centenary of his birth. By Jonathon Catlin and Lotte […]

Der Beitrag George Mosse at One Hundred erschien zuerst auf Literaturwissenschaft in Berlin.