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From Washington Post, March 14, 2008
By Craig Whitlock and Shannon Smilely
BERLIN, March 13 -- Americans with PhDs beware: Telling people in Germany that you're a doctor could land you in jail.
At least seven U.S. citizens working as researchers in Germany have faced criminal probes in recent months for using the title "Dr." on their business cards, Web sites and r¿sum¿s. They all hold doctoral degrees from elite universities back home.
Emblem Books
What are they? A type of illustrated book developed during 16th and 17th centuries. Prevalent in continental Europe.
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EUFeeds is a special-purpose RSS aggregator
for European newspapers that provides access to more than 300 papers. Provided by the European Journalism
Centre in the Netherlands,
this site lets you quickly browse the print media. It is updated every 20 minutes.
From the main site: http://www.eufeeds.eu/ , click on the country's flag to go to the newspapers from that Country. Note, Switzerland is not included.
Bookmark these for future use.
For Germany: http://www.eufeeds.eu/de
For Austria: http://www.eufeeds.eu/at
For Sweden: http://www.eufeeds.eu/se
The book of words / Jenny Erpenbeck ; translated, with an afterword, by Susan Bernofsky. Original German title: Wörterbuch. New York : New Directions, 2007.
Europa / Enea Silvio Piccolomini ; herausgegeben von Günter Frank und Paul Metzger ; Übersetzung von Albrecht Hartmann. Original Latin title: Historia rerum Friderici Tertii imperatoris. Heidelberg : Verlag Regionalkultur, c2005.
Frauen in der literarischen Öffentlichkeit, 1780-1918 / Caroline Bland, Elisa Müller-Adams, (Hgg.). Bielefeld : Aisthesis, 2007.
Geteilte Freude = Simhah meshutefet : Schiller-Rezeption in der jüdischen Moderne : mit einer Edition der hebräischen und jiddischen Übersetzungen der Ode "An die Freude" / Andreas B. Kilcher. München Lyrik-Kabinett 2007.
Götterfunken : Friedrich Schiller zwischen Antike und Moderne / herausgegeben von Siegrid Düll. Hildesheim ; New York : G. Olms, 2007.
John Henry Mackay (Sagitta) : Anarchist der Liebe / Hubert Kennedy. Original title: Anarchist of love. Hamburg : Männerschwarm, 2007.
Kinderzeitschriften in der DDR / herausgegeben von Christoph Lüth und Klaus Pecher. Bad Heilbrunn : Klinkhardt, 2007.
Moving forward, looking back : the European avant-garde and the invention of film culture, 1919-1939 / Malte Hagener. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2007.
New German literature : life-writing and dialogue with the arts / edited by Julian Preece, Frank Finlay and Ruth J. Owen. Oxford : Peter Lang, c2007.
Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin : the fire of the gods drives us to set forth by day and by night / selected and translated by James Mitchell. San Francisco : Ithuriel's Spear, c2007.
The seventh well / Fred Wander ; translated by Michael Hofmann. Original German title: Der siebente Brunnen. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2008.
Traumatic verses : on poetry in German from the concentration camps, 1933-1945 / Andrés Nader. Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, c2007.
Tycho Brahe's path to God : a novel / Max Brod ; introduction by Stefan Zweig ; translated from the German by Felix Warren Crosse ; introduction to the new edition by Peter Fenves. Original German title: Tycho Brahes Weg zu Gott. Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2007.
Visions of violence : German avant-gardes after fascism / Richard Langston. Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2008.
Von Sommerträumen und Wintermärchen : Versepen im Vormärz / Bernd Füllner, Karin Füllner (Hgg.). Bielefeld : Aisthesis, 2007.
Women without a past? : German autobiographical writings and fascism / Joanne Sayner.
Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007.
Zeit vergessen, Zeit erinnern : Hans Fallada und das kulturelle Gedächtnis / Carsten Gansel / Werner Liersch (Hg.). Göttingen : V&R unipress, c2008.
WU Libraries have subscribed to Literary Encyclopedia, a scholarly-owned, peer-reviewed encylopedia of literature which is constantly being updated with new content.
Literary Encyclopedia provides:
Example articles: Humanism , Albert Camus
For questions, contact Brian (bvetruba@wustl.edu; 935-4824; IM: wulibgerman)
Besides the Oxford Companion to German Literature, WU Libraries has access to the entire set of Oxford reference titles on Literature.
See the following: http://wulibraries.typepad.com/complitnews/2008/03/oxford-literatu.html
Our access to the Oxford Companion to German Literature through the Oxford Reference Online database has been reactivated. Note, only five users can use this database at a time, please LOGOFF when finished.
The Oxford Companion to German Literature:
For a complete listing of new videos and DVDs, consult the Catalog or the DVD list.
Bauhaus [videorecording] : less is more. Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2006.
Diamonds of the night [videorecording] = Démanty noci / Filmove Studio Barrandov ; written by Arnost Lustig and Jan Nemec ; directed by Jan Nemec. Sousto = Der Bissen = A bite to eat / Ústrední pujcovna filmu ; directed by Jan Nemec. Czech dialog, English subtitles. VHS.About Holocaust
Distant journey [videorecording] / directed by Alfred Radok ; written by Erik Kolar, Mojmir Drvota and Alfred Radok. Chicago, Ill. : Facets Multimedia : Facets Video [distributor], 2005. Czech dialogue, English subtitles. DVD. About Holocaust.
Dita Saxová [videorecording] / [presented by] Ceskoslovenský filmexport ; screenplay by Arnost Lustig, Antonín Moskalyk ; directed by Antonín Moskalyk. Originally issued as a motion picture in 1968. Czech dialog, English subtitles. VHS.About Holocaust
Hitler's War [videorecording] / Hurricane International Ltd. [S.l.] : Edgehill Publishing Ltd., 2006. DVD.
Misha Defonseca's Holocaust memoir is a fake. See the new stories below
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/29/wwolf129.xml
http://www.focus.de/kultur/buecher/leben-mit-woelfen_aid_263315.html
The Libraries has a copy of this fake memoir: Misha : a mémoire of the holocaust years / Misha Defonseca.
Access to Olin Library
Requires ID after 9 p.m.
Washington University Libraries announce that beginning March 16th a current Washington University identification card will be required of each person entering the John M. Olin Library or the adjoining Whispers Café after 9 p.m. Currently, card access to the Library and the café begins at midnight.
Shirley K. Baker, dean of the Washington University Libraries, explains that this change makes Olin Library’s card access schedule consistent with all other buildings on campus.
According to Dean Baker, “We believe this change will enhance student safety without greatly restricting the larger community’s access to Olin Library. Our students, faculty members, and staff already carry their University ID cards for many other functions. We hope having to present their cards at the Library after 9 p.m. will only be a minor inconvenience.”
Contact Brian (bvetruba@wustl.edu) if you have questions about this.
