The wall was still coming down when critics began to call for the great Berlin novel that could explain what was happening to Germany and the Germans. Such a novel never appeared. Instead, writers hav
Focusing on seminal but hereto-fore neglected autobiographies by German and Austrian women from the turn of the twentieth century,Truth to Tell shows how women positioned themselves between tradition
In the autumn of 2006, the Gerstenberger family's life changed forever with their daughter Katie's cancer diagnosis. This is the true story, told by Katie's mother, of their journey together through h
"Twenty years after its fall, the wall that divided Berlin and Germany presents a conceptual paradox: on one hand, Germans have sought to erase it completely; on the other, it haunts the imagination i
Although the Persians are seldom mentioned explicitly in the Hebrew Bible, the Persian period (539–331 B.C.E.) gave new shape to ancient Israel, as the biblical text evolved and the foundations of the
The direct background and context for the emergent Old Testament, says Gerstenberger (Old Testament, Philipps-U. Marburg), was the Persian Empire, an immense global, multinational state with its cultu
Destroying human habitat and taking human lives, disasters, be they natural, man-made, or a combination, threaten large populations, even entire nations and societies. They also disrupt the existing o
Engendered at a 2005 Fulbright summer seminar, these 15 essays describe new directions in literature in Berlin, Leipzig and Homburg. The contributors focus primarily on the literary public sphere as t
