Global Languages and Cultures

An informative guide to to German literature. and its historical and cultural background.

Combining cultural history and literary analysis, this study proposes a new reading of the changing relationship between Germans and Jews following the Holocaust. Two Holocaust survivors whose work became uniquely successful in the Germany of the 1980s and 1990s, Grete Weil and Ruth Klger, emerge as major contributors to a postwar German discussion about the Nazi legacy that had largely excluded living Jews. By tracing the decades-long waxing and waning of the German public's interest in German-Jewish literature, and the particular cultural-political impact that Weil's and Klger's works had on their German audience, it investigates the paradox of Germany's confrontation of the Holocaust without necessarily confronting the Jews as Germans.

A reference guide to German culture broadly defined, including social customs, contemporary issues, media, and intellectual life.

In the 1930s and 40s, Los Angeles became an unlikely cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals--including Thomas Mann, Theodore W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg--who had fled Nazi Germany. During their years in exile, they would produce a substantial body of major works to address the crisis of modernism that resulted from the rise of National Socialism.

Conjugations in all tenses of the most commonly used German verbs. Also available at the library circulation desk is an accompanying CD-ROM with practice exercises and grammar review.

A classic German-English, English-German dictionary. A second copy is available for circulation, shelved on the 3rd floor with the call number PF3640 .O94 2005 DICS.

An abridged but no less useful version of the Oxford-Duden German Dictionary.