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‘Faust’ author Goethe’s fascination with Yiddish

As a young man, Goethe visited Jewish schools in Frankfurt, and even attended a circumcision and a Jewish wedding ...
Los Angeles Times

Lessons in life from Goethe

JOHN ARMSTRONG knows he has an uphill battle in making a case for his subject, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The author even begins his book, “Love, Life, Goethe,” with the Dublin building-site joke he ...
The Atlantic

A New Life of Goethe

THE consciousness that biography is a particular and a difficult art is borne in upon us when we stop to consider how few, how very few, of our really heroic figures have been set before us in ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

John Armstrong: Love, Life, Goethe - How to be Happy in an Imperfect World (transcript available)

Sorry, this audio is not yet available or has expired John Armstrong: Yes, the book ends with a description of the sort of situation I was in about half way through ...
The Baltimore Sun

Germany’s literary giant lives on; Goethe: After more than two centuries, the poet and philosopher’s epigrams remain part of the common lexicon, and his life and work the ...

The 250th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is celebrated worldwide tomorrow, and though ecstatic readers no longer commit suicide in his honor, he remains a titanic figure in world literature.
Chicago Tribune

A vivid picture of Goethe’s life, times

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), most commonly known in the English-speaking world as “the German Shakespeare,” lived large. At 25 his novel “The Sorrows of Young Werther” made him into a ...
Goethe

Driven by curiosity and the lust for life

Driven by curiosity and the lust for life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s body of work encompassed a wide range of topics. | Photo (detail): © picture alliance/akg ...