GERMAN 3252 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill, Ghetto Uprising, Arthur Schnitzler
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A lot of human life destroyed--extended to buildings--beautiful old synagogues, destroyed throughout. Europe, + ways of life and unique cultural dynamics were demolished. German jewish case is a quite spectacular one--very small jewish population was responsible for all kinds of innovations, many are still relevant (19th century--marx, einstein, freud, etc. but many of these people participated in a particular cultural productivity. One thing that"s clear is that german jews started to identify with innovation, in the way that ethnic groups tend to identify with some kind of professional path. = fritz auber, synthesized nitrates = also inventor of the mustard gas used in wwi) (arthur schnitzler created the narration of a story from within a character"s mind) Some of these people born around 1920, schooled partially in austrian germany, are still alive (but the chemist who synthesized the birth control pill died just last year).