"In Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin, Marc Caplan explores the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture in the days following World War I. By concentrating primarily on a small group of avant-garde Yiddish writers-Dovid Bergelson, Der Nister, and Moy…
This book marks a major intervention into the underexplored role of the comic in German letters. At the book#x92;s heart is the relationship between the comic and irony. Weitzman argues that in the early twentieth century, irony, a key figure for the German Romantics, reemerged …
This book marks a major intervention into the underexplored role of the comic in German letters. At the book's heart is the relationship between the comic and irony. Weitzman argues that in the early twentieth century, irony, a key figure for the German Romantics, reemerged from…
"The Jews and Germany debunks a modern myth: that once upon a time there was a Judeo-German symbiosis, in which two cultures met and brought out the best in each other. Enzo Traverso argues that, to the contrary, the attainments of Jews in the German-speaking world were due to t…
In 1924, Joseph Roth traveled to his birthplace of Galicia on assignment as a feuilletonist for the Frankfurter Zeitung. While traveling in the city of Lemberg, Roth claimed that the city had kosmopolitische Neigungen. This dissertation connects theories of cosmopolitanism to Ro…
Le Cahier de l'Herne consacré à Joseph Roth (1894-1939) mêle, outre des des essais et des témoignages biographiques, une trentaine de contributions critiques pour la majorité d'entre elles nouvelles, signées par des comparatistes et des germanistes, des traductions inédites de p…
