This volume explores the way various aspects of heresy – as difference, variation, and deviation – have come to function in Jewish history and tradition. The main argument of this volume is that heresy not only distinguishes, demarcates, and separates groups, but creates a social, political and religious dynamics that has proved to sustain rather than disrupt tradition... Read More »
Wherever you may be in the fall – whether it’s here in Canada or your hometown in another country – we are looking forward to welcoming you back to the German Department... Read More »
Reading Group, Fall/Winter 2020/21 Read More »
We are proud to announce a new five-year SSHRC Insight Grant project on the topic of “Practices of Commentary” centred at the University of Toronto (2020–2025). Read More »
The Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG) has come out with a Statement in Support of Victims of Racism and Racist Attacks... Read More »
Organized and funded by The Canadian Association for University Teachers of German (CAUTG) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)... Read More »
Professor Anna Shternshis has been named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Read More »
This is just a little heads-up that we'll be offering GER100Y and GER200Y online this summer... Read More »
Congratulations to Willi Goetschel who received the Moses Mendelssohn Prize of the City of Dessau... Read More »
The literary works of Marlen Haushofer and Sibylle Berg intersect in their avoidance of “happy endings”, their accounts of death, destruction, and apocalyptic events as well as their portrayals of failing ideals such as romantic love and the concept of family... Read More »
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