Dr David S. Groiser
David S. Groiser, M.A., D.Phil.
University Lecturer (CUF) in German, Fellow of Brasenose College
Address: Brasenose College, Oxford, OX1 4AJ
Email: david.groiser[at]bnc.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 277523
Fax: 01865 277822
Research
David Groiser's research interests are in the field of German writing since the Enlightenment, with particular focus on modern German thought, German-Jewish culture, and critical theory.
Teaching
German language and literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth century; German-Jewish culture since the Enlightenment; Kleist; Rilke; Kafka; Thomas Mann.
Publications
'Repetition and Renewal: Kierkegaard, Rosenzweig and the German-Jewish Renaissance', in Die Gegenwärtigkeit des deutsch-jüdischen Denkens, hrsg. von Julia Matveev und Ashraf Noor (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2011), S. 265-301
Tradition and Historical Revelation in the Work of Franz Rosenzweig (forthcoming)
Editor, David Groiser, Martin Buber, Mythos und Mystik. Frühe Schriften, 1900 - 1928 (forthcoming)
'"Aber wie soll ich denn aus dem Jiddischen übersetzen?": Gershom Scholem and the Problem of Translating Yiddish', Naharaim, 1/2 (2007), 260-97
'Translating Yiddish – Martin Buber and David Pinski', in: The Yiddish Prescence in European Literature: Inspiration and Interaction. Selected Papers arising from the Fourth and Fifth Mendel Friedman Conferences in Yiddish, ed. by Joseph Sherman and Ritchie Robertson (Oxford: Legenda, 2005), pp. 45-71
'Jewish Law and Tradition in the Early Work of Erich Fromm', in: The Early Frankfurt School and Religion, ed. Margarete Kohlenbach and Raymond Geuss (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 128-44 (notes pp. 209-12)