The Penn Libraries’ historic collection of research material on German immigrants to Pennsylvania recently grew to include a set of nine German-language newspapers published in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century.
News
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Gift of Historic German-American Newspapers
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Penn Professor Kathryn Hellerstein Wins National Jewish Book Award
January 28, 2015The Jewish Book Council has named University of Pennsylvania professor Kathryn Hellerstein recipient of the 2014
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Fifth volume of Türkisch-deutsche Studien published
January 26, 2015Visiting Professor Yasemin Dayioglu-Yücel recently co-edited the fifth volume of Türkisch-deutsche Studien, entitled "In der Welt der Proteste und Umwälzungen."
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Graduate Student Wins Top Paper Award at ICA
April 14, 2014Didem Uca, a second-year PhD student in the department, and co-author Kate Zambon won the Top Student Paper Award in the Popular Communication Division at the 2014 conference of the International Communication Association.
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Türkisch-deutsche Studien, Vol 4
January 27, 2014Visiting Professor Yasemin Dayioglu-Yücel has recently edited the fourth volume of Türkisch-deutsche Studien, entitled "Jugendbilder - Repräsentationen von Jugend in Medien und Politik"
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Graduate Student's Summer Translation Internship in Berlin
October 23, 2013As a summer intern at the museum of the Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum, Didem Uca assisted in the editing of, and translated into English, a new exhibition called, "Bleiben?!
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New book by Catriona MacLeod
October 19, 2013Fugitive Objects: Sculpture and Literature in the German Nineteenth Century, forthcoming in December from Northwestern University Press.
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Rammstein and Herder?
October 11, 2013Simon Richter argues that Johann Gottfried Herder is the "father of rock and roll." in an essay in a new anthology called Rammstein on Fire: New Perspectives on the Music and Performances, edited by John T. Littlejohn and Michael T. Putnam.
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Penn Alumna Wins the Coalition of Women in German Dissertation Prize
October 11, 2013WIG has just announced that Claire "CJ" Jones has won this prestigious award for her dissertation on Communal Song and the Theology of Voice in Medieval German Mysticism.
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Penn Presence at the GSA
October 11, 2013Participants at the German Studies Association Meeting in early October in Denver couldn't help but notice a strong Penn presence. There were so many Penn people, we are planning to host a cash-bar for Penn alumni at the next GSA.