Liliane Weissberg was born on 1953 and is an American literary scholar and cultural historian specializing in German-Jewish studies and German and American literature.
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Liliane Weissberg is currently the Christopher H Browne Distinguished Professor in Arts and Sciences and professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Liliane Weissberg received, among others, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Humboldt Research Award for her research on German-Jewish literature and culture and the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin, and holds an honorary degree from the University of Graz.
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Liliane Weissberg was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1953 to a Jewish family.
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Liliane Weissberg's parents were political refugees who had fled from Poland in 1949.
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Liliane Weissberg was the Joseph B Glossberg Term Chair in the Humanities for several years.
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Liliane Weissberg has been a guest professor at several universities in the United States, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and has held visiting chairs at the University of Hamburg, the University of Graz, and the University of Kassel.
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Liliane Weissberg has been a fellow at the Voltaire Foundation Oxford, the Center for Advanced Studies in Munich, the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at Penn, the Research Library Gotha, the Dubnow Institute in Leipzig, the IFK Vienna and the IZEA at the University of Halle.
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Liliane Weissberg has curated exhibitions at the Slought Gallery at Penn, Jewish Museum Frankfurt, the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach, and the German Historical Museum in Berlin.
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Liliane Weissberg has served on numerous institutional boards, is currently a member of the board of the German Historical Museum in Berlin and the advisory board of the Leo Baeck Institute London, and the Center for Jewish Studies, Graz.
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Liliane Weissberg was one of the founding members of the Research Center Sanssouci for the Study of the Enlightenment, a collaboration between the University of Potsdam and the Public Castles and Gardens Sanssouci, and served on the advisory board of the Moses Mendelssohn Center in Potsdam.
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Liliane Weissberg has been a guest speaker on several radio shows, including BBC World Service, CBC Toronto, Deutschlandfunk, Hessischer Rundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk, NPR and the MLA radio service.
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Liliane Weissberg has contributed to the rediscovery of German-Jewish literary and cultural traditions and has researched the German-Jewish Enlightenment, Romanticism in America and Europe, German realism, and visual studies.
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Liliane Weissberg has extensively dealt with figures like Edgar Allan Poe, Rahel Varnhagen, Hannah Arendt, Dorothea Schlegel, Henriette Herz, Johann Gottfried Herder, Moses Mendelssohn, Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Heinrich von Kleist.