Myth and Modernity

Myth and ModernityIn interpreting its own age art often turns to the past. At the beginning of the twentieth century one of these encounters between present and past was prompted by the interest a major figure in German modernism, the sculptor Ernst Barlach, came to take in the medieval epic The Song of the Nibelungen. There exists no statement by Barlach to explain what prompted his interest and the resulting sequence of large drawings on the epics climactic final

Zierler is the first to do so from a Jewish perspective

growing more frequent of late

we are introduced to an intricate society of housewives

By analyzing a turn-of-the-century model of urban reform that depicts this relationship between citizens and government

one of Cairo’s most famous restaurants

They suggest new resources for the stories of our engagement with the things of the past and the sites where traces of history survive

and the contestations over the boundary between public and private

Stefanie Schüler-Springorum introduces and examines gender narratives and opportunities across a wide range of individual circumstances and during times of discrimination

Franziska A

Protestant missionary children’s historical lives are examined from the perspectives of parents

Michael Halberstam

and practices