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 of Germanistik 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. SeebaReminiscences of a UFO - Egon SchwarzAufklärungskulturgeschichte: Bemerkungen zu Judentum, Philologie und Goethe bei Ludwig Geiger - Christoph KoenigVom wahren Weg: Eine Respondenz - Amir EshelTrümmer im Gepäck: Margarete Susman, Bertha Badt-Strauss und Hannah Arendt in der Emigration - Barbara HahnEine Klassikerin der Literaturtheorie: Käte Hamburger - Gesa DaneA Jewish Critic from Germany: Hermann Levin Goldschmidt - Willi GoetschelResponse to Willi Goetschel - Thomas SparrPart of an Intellectual Autobiography - Walter H. SokelResponse to Walter Sokel - Marc A. WeinerAn Appreciation of the Work of J.P. Stern, Siegbert Prawer, and George Steiner - Ritchie RobertsonJewish Critics and German Literature in the Public Sphere: A Response to Ritchie Robertson - David Suchoff