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Recording of Canadian Jewish Heritage Month Lecture with Vardit Lightstone, available now
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Faculty, Staff & Student Honours
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Anna Shternshis and Psoy Korolenko discuss their Yiddish Glory Project
Anna Shternshis and Psoy Korolenko discuss her Yiddish Glory Project, the process of recovering and presenting Soviet Yiddish Holocaust Music on the radio in the United States... Read More »
John K. Noyes Wins Prestigious Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize
John K. Noyes Wins prestigious Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures for his book, Herder: Aesthetics against Imperialism, published by the University of Toronto Press. Read More »
Ist mir egal Contest: Enter by 1 April 2017!
Side-by-side writing works as follows: It is not a writing feedback group. It’s just a way to make writing progress while hanging out with friends and colleagues (this is also known as: zwei Fliegen auf einen Streich). Read More »
Keeping in Touch with Friends & Colleagues
A former Ray D. Wolfe Postdoctoral Fellow for Jewish Studies in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto (2011-2013), Rachel Seelig returned to our department as a visiting scholar... Read More »
German Chancellor Merkel Wary of Trump Presidency
New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/world/europe/germany-merkel-trump-election.html?_r=0 Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/angela-merkel-germany-donald-trump-us-election-warning_uk_582313c5e4b020461a1e8713 Der Spiegel: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/angela-merkel-reagiert-auf-wahlsieg-von-donald-trump-a-1120489.html Die Zeit: http://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2016-11/angela-merkel-donald-trump-zusammenarbeit Read More »
Apply now for the 2017-18 graduate program
Apply now for the 2017-18 graduate program Read More »
Newsletter 2016: Out Now
Please check out our 2016 Departmental Newsletter... Read More »
Christine Lehleiter edits new book on the relationship between literary and scientific cultures
Fact and Fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture between the eighteenth century and today. Observing that it was in the eighteenth century that the divide between science and literature as disciplines first began to be defined, the contributors to this collection probe how authors from that time onwards have assessed and affected the relationship between literary and scientific cultures... Read More »