German Studies in the Post-Holocaust Age: The Politics of Memory, Identity, and Ethnicity

From: German Quarterly | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Del Caro, Adrian, and Janet Ward, eds. German Studies in the Post-Holocaust Age: The Politics of Memory, Identity, and Ethnicity. Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2000. 244 pp. $55.00 hardcover. Paperback edition, 2003. 262pp. $21.95.

German Studies, the editors of this volume assert, is in crisis. Enrollments in German majors and German courses are in decline and the number of K-12 students learning German has dropped precipitously. To readers of this journal, the alarm has been heard before. The editors argue, however, that the way out involves embracing the multi-ethnicity of ...

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