German 697J - ST-Jews & German Culture

This course (for graduate students and advanced undergraduates) is an in-depth exploration of both German-Jewish writers, thinkers, and filmmakers (including Freud, Heine, Kafka, Lasker-Schuler, Zweig) and the representation of Jews in German-language culture from the Enlightenment to the post-Holocaust present. Topics include assimilation, dissimilation, anti-Semitism, Zionism, exile, Holocaust, and Jews in post-Holocaust Germany and Austria. Conducted in English with readings in German