Michael Ermarth
Professor of History
Education
- Ph.D. University of Chicago 1973.
Jewish Studies or Associated Courses Taught
- History 52: Modern Germany (1800-1945)
- History 96: Topics in 20th Century Germany
- JWST11/HIST94.9: History and Culture of the Jews II: the Modern Period
E-mail: Hans.M.Ermarth@Dartmouth.EDU
Recent Scholarship
- Edition, Introduction and Chapter, in Michael Ermarth, ed., America and the Shaping of Germany 1945-1955 (Berg Publishers, May 1993).
- Article: Michael Ermarth, ""Amerikansierung" und deutsche Kulturkritik 1945-1965: Metastasen der Moderne und hermeneutische Hybris" in Konrad Jarausch and Hannes Siegrist eds., Amerikanisierung und Sowetisierung in Deutschland 1945-1970 (Frankfurt: Campus 1997
- Article: Michael Ermarth, "Between Blight and Blessing: The Influence of American Popular Culture on the Federal Republic from the Late 1960s through 1990" in Detlef Junker ed., Germany and the United States in the Era of the Cold War. 2 vols. to be published in 1999 by the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC. (in English by Cambridge Univ. Press; in German by Oldenbourg Verlag).
Interests vis a vis Jewish Studies
- German-Jewish Relations and German Jewry--"Problematic Symbiosis"
- German Anti-Semitism: German Xenophobia and "Xenophilia"
- German Thought and the Critique of Pure (and Impure) Modernity
- The Congenital Prejudice of "Judaization" as "Americanization" and "Feminization"
- Ernst Cassirer, Helmut Plessner, Georg Misch, Edmund Husserl, Georg Simmel, Walter Rathenau
