LICHTENBERG-KOLLEG

Dear Friends, As you know, I am working on a project entitled Feelings about Jews: Morality and Emotions in German Film, 1914-2014. I am currently working on the second chapter, which deals with films of the Weimar Republic. Paul Wegener’s film The Golem (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam [1921]) is one of […]

Hello colleagues—Kolleagues?—and whoever else who has happened to find this post. It’s an odd time to be writing about research—something that has most certainly taken a back seat in these stressful and alien circumstances. But it on occasion also serves as a welcome distraction from said circumstances. That, and nursing all my new hobbies. Like […]

I recently discovered a hitherto unknown letter by the great Victorian man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) to a certain Isaac Ironside (1808–70), dated 10 July 1855. Ironside was a leading radical, Chartist, and Owenite, and during the period in question, served as local councillor for the Ecclesall Ward of Sheffield. This was pleasing to […]

Since the beginning of the corona crisis, my time in home-office has mostly been spent completing two articles that are related to my on-going research project Governing Religious Diversity in a (Post)Secular Age: Teaching about Religion in American Public Schools. The basic question at the center of this project is: why and how religion, which […]

My research project as a Moritz Stern Fellow in Modern Jewish Studies at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg investigates the figure and scholarship of Isaiah Sonne (1887-1960), a pioneering although neglected scholar of Jewish Studies. Born in Galicia (Hapsburg Empire) and educated in Switzerland and Italy, he was active for almost twenty years in Italy up until the […]