He was the son of one of Berlin's wealthiest bankers and merchants, a student of Lessing and Mendelssohn, a dealer in silver and coins, a factory owner who employed poor Jewish lace workers from the Eastern territories, and an author of economic treatises.
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Piper Verlag Munich Publishes a New Edition of Hannah Arendt’s Works
April 16, 2021In Fall 2020, Hannah Arendt’s German publisher, Piper Verlag, has begun to reissue Arendt’s works in a new Studienausgabe, supervised by Thomas Meyer.
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Bethany Wiggin on SAS podcast
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Erika Kontulainen (Penn, 2020) publishes on Fontane
November 28, 2020Recent Penn PhD Erika Kontulainen has an article on "Landscape and Memory in Theodor Fontane's Works" in the current volume of Colloquia Germanica, a special issue dedicated to Fontane in celebration of the 200th anniversary of his birth last year.
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"From the Ottoman Empire to Auschwitz: Sephardic Jews and the Holocaust" with Devin E. Naar
November 24, 2020Although usually understood as a "European" event, the Holocaust also resulted in the murder of tens of thousands of Jews born in the Muslim world of the Ottoman Empire (e. g., today's Greece).
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Munich’s Center for Advanced Studies Initiates New Blog
November 11, 2020The Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Munich (LMU) has initiated a new blog this Fall, to reflect on the time of the pandemic.
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Christina Frei, Bridget Swanson, and Glenn Levine are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication in spring 2021 of Augenblicke
November 6, 2020A cooperative project between the authors, its adopters, and the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG), Augenblicke is a comprehensive curriculum for the introductory through intermediate university levels of German.
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The exhibition Hannah Arendt and the Twentieth Century Ends its Run at the German Historical Museum in Berlin
October 30, 2020The exhibition Hannah Arendt and the Twentieth Century has just ended its run in Berlin, selling out tickets even on its last days. But it will travel on: First, to the Kunsthalle in Bonn, and after that, to Munich.
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On the Friendship Between Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin
October 21, 2020On October 14, the German Historical Museum (DHM) celebrated Hannah Arendt's Birthday with an event entitled "Hannah Arendt und die Freundschaft”; the program was organized in the context of the DHM’s exhibition, “Hannah Arendt und das zwanzigste Jahrhundert.”
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The Significance of the German Literary Archive in Marbach—Liliane Weissberg in Interview
July 24, 2020For many years now, Liliane Weissberg has been engaged with the German Literary Archive in Marbach (Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach).