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"""Katja Garloff is one of the most interesting scholars working in German literature today, and her work in the fields of eighteenth-century studies, contemporary German literature, and Jewish studies has been highly acclaimed. Garloff's new book, Mixed Feelings, is another important contribution.""-Liliane Weissberg, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania ""This is a splendid book. It takes on a topic that is both underexamined and of obvious importance, and it does so with insight, erudition, clarity, theoretical savvy, and much in the way of plain good sense. Mixed Feelings is a major contribution both to German Jewish studies and the ongoing conversations about love as an ethical force in the here and now. Katja Garloff's book deepens our sense of the complexity of the dynamics of Jewish assimilation by illuminating the role of a complex discourse of emotion in representations of and interventions into the assimilation process. Garloff has an impressive command of the relevant secondary literature, which she invokes with a light touch, and she creatively mobilizes cultural theory-like Homi Bhabha's notion of colonial mimicry-to highly productive ends. Yet it is in her subtle, elegant close readings that Garloff gives us perhaps the keenest insights into the works she examines.""-Paul Reitter, Director, Humanities Institute, The Ohio State University"

""Katja Garloff is one of the most interesting scholars working in German literature today, and her work in the fields of eighteenth-century studies, contemporary German literature, and Jewish studies has been highly acclaimed. Garloff's new book, Mixed Feelings, is another important contribution.""-Liliane Weissberg, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania ""This is a splendid book. It takes on a topic that is both underexamined and of obvious importance, and it does so with insight, erudition, clarity, theoretical savvy, and much in the way of plain good sense. Mixed Feelings is a major contribution both to German Jewish studies and the ongoing conversations about love as an ethical force in the here and now. Katja Garloff's book deepens our sense of the complexity of the dynamics of Jewish assimilation by illuminating the role of a complex discourse of emotion in representations of and interventions into the assimilation process. Garloff has an impressive command of the relevant secondary literature, which she invokes with a light touch, and she creatively mobilizes cultural theory-like Homi Bhabha's notion of colonial mimicry-to highly productive ends. Yet it is in her subtle, elegant close readings that Garloff gives us perhaps the keenest insights into the works she examines.""-Paul Reitter, Director, Humanities Institute, The Ohio State University

Katja Garloff is one of the most interesting scholars working in German literature today, and her work in the fields of eighteenth-century studies, contemporary German literature, and Jewish studies has been highly acclaimed. Garloff's new book, Mixed Feelings, is another important contribution. -Liliane Weissberg, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania This is a splendid book. It takes on a topic that is both underexamined and of obvious importance, and it does so with insight, erudition, clarity, theoretical savvy, and much in the way of plain good sense. Mixed Feelings is a major contribution both to German Jewish studies and the ongoing conversations about love as an ethical force in the here and now. Katja Garloff's book deepens our sense of the complexity of the dynamics of Jewish assimilation by illuminating the role of a complex discourse of emotion in representations of and interventions into the assimilation process. Garloff has an impressive command of the relevant secondary literature, which she invokes with a light touch, and she creatively mobilizes cultural theory-like Homi Bhabha's notion of colonial mimicry-to highly productive ends. Yet it is in her subtle, elegant close readings that Garloff gives us perhaps the keenest insights into the works she examines. -Paul Reitter, Director, Humanities Institute, The Ohio State University

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Katja Garloff is Professor of German and Humanities at Reed College. She is the author of Words from Abroad: Trauma and Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers.

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