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 proverb "Das Billige ist immer das Teuerste" ("The cheapest is always the most expensive") teaches that the lowest ...

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 ...

These days digital programs are absolutely indispensable for learning and the smartphone is becoming increasingly important as a learning medium – also for German as a foreign language courses ...

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

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 ...

GERMANY’S midsized manufacturers, collectively known as the Mittelstand, are often praised as a group for providing the backbone of the world’s fourth-largest economy. Individually, they are world ...