Taking up the Torch: English Institutions, German Dialectics and Multicultural Commitments

This is an unusual narrative in that it successfully combines subjectivity — how an English person was led by a sequence of educational developments, personal encounters and historical constraints to become the founder of the German-Jewish Centre at the University of Sussex; and objectivity — a book that introduces English and American readers to an important and evolving field of historical and cultural studies through intellectual autobiography. It documents the formative experiences of a...