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About Lea Greenberg

I am an editor, translator, and scholar of German studies with a particular focus on German Jewish and Yiddish literature and culture; critical gender studies; multilingualism; and literature of the post-Yugoslav diaspora. I hold a Ph.D. from the Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies.

Lea Greenberg is an editor, translator, and scholar of German and Jewish studies.

NBN Episodes hosted by Lea:

Jewish Studies January 31, 2023

Gendering Modern Jewish Thought

Andrea Dara Cooper

Hosted by Lea Greenberg
The idea of brotherhood has been an important philosophical concept for understanding community, equality, and justice. In Gendering Modern Jewish Thought (Indiana UP, 2021), Andrea Dara Cooper offers a gendered …
Intellectual History August 19, 2022

Scientific History

Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War

Elena Aronova

Hosted by Lea Greenberg
Increasingly, scholars in the humanities are calling for a reengagement with the natural sciences. Taking their cues from recent breakthroughs in genetics and the neurosciences, advocates of “big history” are …
German Studies August 16, 2022

Berlin Contemporary

Architecture and Politics After 1990

Julia Walker

Hosted by Lea Greenberg
For years following reunification, Berlin was the largest construction site in Europe, with striking new architecture proliferating throughout the city in the 1990s and early 2000s. Among the most visible …
German Studies July 27, 2022

Prevail until the Bitter End

Germans in the Waning Years of World War II

Alexandra Lohse

Hosted by Lea Greenberg
In Prevail until the Bitter End: Germans in the Waning Years of World War II (Cornell UP, 2021), Alexandra Lohse explores the gossip and innuendo, the dissonant reactions and perceptions …
German Studies April 20, 2022

German Social Democracy through British Eyes

A Documentary History, 1870–1914

James Retallack

Hosted by Lea Greenberg
On the eve of the First World War, the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) was the largest and most powerful socialist party in the world. German Social Democracy through British …
Jewish Studies February 24, 2022

Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919–1939

Allison Schachter

Hosted by Lea Greenberg
In Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919–1939 (Northwestern UP, 2021), Allison Schachter rewrites Jewish literary modernity from the point of view of women. Focusing on works by interwar Hebrew and Yiddish …
German Studies January 21, 2022

Decay and Afterlife

Form, Time, and the Textuality of Ruins, 1100 to 1900

Aleksandra Prica

Hosted by Lea Greenberg
Western ruins have long been understood as objects riddled with temporal contradictions, whether they appear in baroque poetry and drama, Romanticism’s nostalgic view of history, eighteenth-century paintings of classical subjects …
Jewish Studies January 13, 2022

Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin

A Fugitive Modernism

Marc Caplan

Hosted by Lea Greenberg
In Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism (Indiana UP, 2021), Marc Caplan explores the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture in the days following World War …
German Studies December 7, 2021

Enemies of the People

Hitler's Critics and the Gestapo

J. Ryan Stackhouse

Hosted by Lea Greenberg
How do terror and popularity merge under a dictatorship? How did the Gestapo deal with critics of Nazism? Based on hundreds of secret police case files, Enemies of the People …
German Studies November 26, 2021

The Knight Without Boundaries

Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations

Annegret Oehme

Hosted by Lea Greenberg
This volume explores a core medieval myth, the tale of an Arthurian knight called Wigalois, and the ways it connects the Yiddish-speaking Jews and the German-speaking non-Jews of the Holy …
German Studies October 26, 2021

Jewish Difference and the Arts in Vienna

Composing Compassion in Music and Biblical Theater

Caroline A. Kita

Hosted by Lea Greenberg
During the mid-19th century, the works of Arthur Schopenhauer and Richard Wagner sparked an impulse toward German cultural renewal and social change that drew on religious myth, metaphysics, and spiritualism …
German Studies September 27, 2021

What Remains

The Post-Holocaust Archive in German Memory Culture

Dora Osborne

Hosted by Lea Greenberg
With the passing of those who witnessed National Socialism and the Holocaust, the archive matters as never before. However, the material that remains for the work of remembering and commemorating …
German Studies August 31, 2021

Grotesque Visions

The Science of Berlin Dada

Thomas O. Haakenson

Hosted by Lea Greenberg
Thomas O. Haakenson's book Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada (Bloomsbury, 2021) focuses on the radical avant-garde interventions of Salomo Friedländer (aka Mynona), Til Brugman, and Hannah Höch as they …
German Studies August 24, 2021

Modernism in Trieste

The Habsburg Mediterranean and the Literary Invention of Europe, 1870-1945

Salvatore Pappalardo

Hosted by Lea Greenberg
When we think about the process of European unification, our conversations inevitably ponder questions of economic cooperation and international politics. Salvatore Pappalardo offers a new and engaging perspective, arguing that …