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Grüße aus Hamburg
March 20, 2017Haley Rugh and Erica Suarez, currently preparing in Hamburg for their study abroad gig at the LMU in Munich, smile since they are realizing their dream of studying German in Germany.
Here is their first letter from Germany:
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Ian Fleishman on 'Ecocritical' Kafka in The Germanic Review
February 10, 2017Professor Ian Thomas Fleishman's article "The Rustle of the Anthropocene: Kafka's Odradek as Ecocritical Icon" has been published in the current issue of The Germanic Review.
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MLA Awards Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies to Kathryn Hellerstein
December 6, 2016New York, NY – 6 December 2016 – The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its eighth Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies for an outstanding scholarly work in English in the field of Yiddish to Kathryn Hellerstein, of the University of Pennsylvania, for A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586–1987, published by Stanford University Press. Jan Schwarz, of Lund University, Sweden, will receive an honorable mention for Survivors and Exiles: Yiddish Culture after the Holocaust, published by Wayne State University Press. The prize is awarded each even-numbered year and is awarded alternately to an outstanding translation of a Yiddish literary work and to an outstanding scholarly work in English in the field of Yiddish.
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Co-authors Christina Frei and Bridget Swanson publish "Implications of Advanced Placement World Languages and Cultures Tenets for University Foreign Language Programs"
November 22, 2016AAUSC 2016 Volume - Issues in Language Program Direction: The Interconnected Language Curriculum: Critical Transitions and Interfaces in Articulated K-16 Contexts; Per Urlaub, Johanna Watzinger-Tharp, Editors.
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Graduate Student Tom Tearney helps lead Bassini Jewish Studies Internship Program
September 21, 2016Tom Tearney, a fifth year PhD student, will serve for the second time as graduate student advisor and supervisor for the Bassini Jewish Studies Internship Program at Penn.
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International Boards
September 1, 2016Liliane Weissberg has recently been appointed a founding member of the board of the Research Center Sanssouci for the Study of the Enlightenment.
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Visiting Appointments
September 1, 2016Liliane Weissberg has just returned from the RWTH Aachen where she was DAAD Visiting Professor in German-Jewish Studies and taught in the Departments of German, English, and Political Science.
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Graduate Student Didem Uca Receives Fulbright Research Fellowship in Berlin
August 31, 2016Didem Uca, a fifth year graduate student, has received a Fulbright Research Fellowship at the Humboldt University of Berlin's Institut fur deutsche Literatur for the 2016-2017 academic year.