Proceedings of the Brandeis conference on Jewish Germanists who fled Nazi Germany and their impact on Anglo-American German studies.

Proceedings of the Brandeis conference on Jewish Germanists who fled Nazi Germany and their impact on Anglo-American German studies.

Among the Jewish academics and intellectuals expelled from Germany and Austria during the Nazi era were many specialists in German literature. Strangely, their impact on the practice ofGermanistik in the United States, England, and Canada has been given little attention. Who were they? Did their vision of German literature and culture differ significantly from that of those who remained in their former homeland? What problems did they face in theAmerican and British academic settings? Above all, how did they help shape German studies in the postwar era? This unique and important symposium, which convened at Brandeis University under the auspices of its Center for Germanand European Studies, addresses these and many other questions. Among its distinguished participants--who numbered over thirty in all--are Peter Demetz (Yale, emeritus), Gesa Dane (Göttingen), Amir Eshel (Stanford), Willi Goetschel (Toronto), Barbara Hahn (Princeton), Susanne Klingenstein (MIT), Christoph König (Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach), Ritchie Robertson (Oxford), Egon Schwarz (Washington University St. Louis, emeritus), Hinrich Seeba (UC Berkeley), Walter Sokel (University of Virginia, emeritus), Frank Trommler (University of Pennsylvania), and many more. The volume includes not only the (revised) essays of the participants but also their prepared responses, transcripts of the panel discussion, and dialogue of the participants with members of the audience.

Stephen D. Dowden is professor of German at Brandeis University; Meike G. Werner is assistant professor of German at Vanderbilt University.

Academic Emigration and Intercultural Criticism: On the Role of Jewish Critics in Exile - Hinrich C. Seeba
Reminiscences of a UFO - Egon Schwarz
Aufklärungskulturgeschichte: Bemerkungen zu Judentum, Philologie und Goethe bei Ludwig Geiger - Christoph Koenig
Vom wahren Weg: Eine Respondenz - Amir Eshel
Trümmer im Gepäck: Margarete Susman, Bertha Badt-Strauss und Hannah Arendt in der Emigration - Barbara Hahn
Eine Klassikerin der Literaturtheorie: Käte Hamburger - Gesa Dane
A Jewish Critic from Germany: Hermann Levin Goldschmidt - Willi Goetschel
Response to Willi Goetschel - Thomas Sparr
Part of an Intellectual Autobiography - Walter H. Sokel
Response to Walter Sokel - Marc A. Weiner
An Appreciation of the Work of J.P. Stern, Siegbert Prawer, and George Steiner - Ritchie Robertson
Jewish Critics and German Literature in the Public Sphere: A Response to Ritchie Robertson - David Suchoff