This article is adapted from the author's remarks at the tenth annual dinner of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York, at which he was honored for distinguished scholarship in German history and for ...

The German saying "Different personalities balance one another" teaches that contrasting traits and perspectives can ...

In Australia, the upcoming German federal election does not receive anywhere near as much attention as the previous elections in the U.K. or France. However, it is exactly this predictability and lack ...

It's beginning to feel a lot like the end of the term in the office. Mince pies for breakfast, Christmas cards stacked up on desks and excited chatter about holiday plans. But this week really was the ...

Deutschland ist wunderschön! Our collection of lesson ideas and resources will help you get students excited about learning German So few young people are choosing a languages degree that in the next ...

University of Western Australia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Impressionistic, subjective snapshots of complex societies are best avoided. And yet when you actually ...

It was one of the great literary successes of German postwar literature: "Deutschstunde" was translated into 20 languages. Now adapted into a film, it remains as relevant as ever. Long seen as the ...

When the results of the 2011 German census were announced recently, they included an embarrassing error – at least in the demographics world. It showed the German ...