News

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Miriam Borden, who was named the winner of the 2020 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for her collection of Yiddish educational materials for children. Read More »

Organized and funded by The Canadian Association for University Teachers of German (CAUTG) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)... 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 »

First published in 1976, John Koster's superb English translation of Hermann Levin Goldschmidt's Contradiction Set Free, (Freiheit für den Widerspruch) has just been released by Bloomsbury with an introduction by Willi Goetschel... Read More »

Professor Anna Shternshis has been named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Read More »

Professor Shternshis has been awarded a six-month research fellowship with the Jackman Humanities Institute to pursue a project entitled “Last Yiddish Heroes... Read More »

Congratulations to Willi Goetschel who received the Moses Mendelssohn Prize of the City of Dessau... Read More »

On Wednesday, February 5th, Professor Markus Stock was installed as the 17th Principal of University College. Congratulations! Read More »

Congratulations to Christine Lehleiter who has been awarded a Humboldt Fellowship for her project ‘Stimulus, Response, Behavior: Habit at the Intersection of Nature and Culture (1750-1850)’ Read More »

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 »