In her latest book, Associate Professor of German Jill Smith explains her frustration at a tendency to oversimplify a key period of twentieth-century European history—and it’s all down to a 1970s ...

This is the text of “Weimar in Waltham,” the talk on the early history of Brandeis with which Max Richter Professor of American Civilization Stephen J. Whitfield opened the Dec. 15 faculty symposium ...

Germany’s Holocaust remembrance culture has been strained by Oct. 7 and the rise of the far-right. What happens if Germany ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract European women, who were experiencing political and social emancipation in the period following the First World War, were also faced with ...

A snapshot of Berlin between the world wars includes nudist magazines devoted entirely to children; glittering cabaret shows parading acres of sweaty, perfumed female flesh; and an endless supply of ...

Gustav Stresemann, Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic from 1923 to 1929, at the General Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva. (Wikimedia Commons). If the object of learning history is ...

A push to revitalise Yiddish and its cultural traditions has gained momentum in Germany, the very place where the Nazi regime ...

In the 1920s, Yiddish was more than just a lingua franca for East European Jewish émigrés; it was also a language of high culture, as demonstrated by a brilliant new book, “Yiddish in Weimar Berlin: ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Weimar popular fiction abounded with stereotypical representations, and today those of Jewish life and culture appear particularly egregious.

An Israeli artist is challenging boundaries – national, political and artistic – with his project to create a Jewish state in former East Germany. BERLIN (JTA) – An Israeli artist is challenging ...