Before he was a novelist Sebald was a straight scholar. What insight into his enigmatic literary oeuvre can we ascertain from these newly published essays?

"This is for us a sacred task," says a world-renowned expert on German Jewish genealogy from the Looted Books Project.

It could be that keeping a diary — “keep” being the operative word — is how we stay true to ourselves, even the embarrassing ...

According to Columbia Magazine , published by Columbia University’s Office of Alumni and Development, but ultimately named ...

Schloss Elmau, a German resort tucked into the Bavarian Alps, has hosted celebrities and world leaders, including President ...

A German court has convicted and sentenced two Afghan men to years in prison for planning to attack the Swedish parliament to revenge Quran burnings in the country. They were found guilty of ...

A German court has sentenced two Afghan men to prison for planning an attack on the Swedish parliament in response to Quran burnings in the country. They were found guilty of supporting Islamic State ...

Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found.But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their ...

“Book banning, in one form or another, goes back a long time,” he said, as the footage was cut with clips of Nazis burning books. “And now it's fashionable again, at least in some of our ...

The report cuts to a video of Nazi Germany during a book burning event as Eisenbaum says ... along with anything considered 'un-German.' Eisenbaum's comments sparked fury among Republicans ...

that Nazis considered "un-German." Nazi book burning is often likened to modern censorship of books in the U.S. since they both aim to restrict access to information and ideas in books.