Books by Ruth Schwertfeger

A Nazi Camp Near Danzig: Perspectives on Shame and on the Holocaust from Stutthof. Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2021.

In Transit: Narratives of German Jews in Exile, Flight and Internment during  “The Dark Years “of France, Franke und Timme Verlag, Berlin, 2012

The Wee Wild One:  Stories of Belfast and beyond, University of Wisconsin Press, 2004

Else Lasker-Schuler:  Inside this Deathly Solitude, Berg Publishers, Oxford:   1991

Women of Theresienstadt: Voices from a Concentration Camp, Berg Publishers, Oxford: 1989

 Chapters in Books

“Simultaneity of Past and present in Mexico,” in The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean, ed. by Kristin Ruggiero, Brighton:  Sussex Academic Press, 2005.

“Translating the Poetry of Else Lasker-Schiller:  Transposing into another Key,” in Else Lasker-Schuler: Ansichten und Perspektiven, Tübingen und Basel: 1999.

“1944:  Jewish Writing in German continues in Theresienstadt and beyond” Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought, Yale University Press, New Haven: 1997.

“Idee und Vision.  Zu Georg Kaisers Dramatik der Jahre 1918-27” in Interpretationen zu Georg Kaiser, ed. by Arnim Arnold, Stuttgart, Klett Verlag, 1980, 70-83.

“Solipsism in the Artist Dramas of Georg Kaiser,” in Georg Kaiser Symposium, Berlin-Darmstadt, Agora Verlag, 1980, 223-234.

Book Review: Shofar:  An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Purdue University Press-The

Road to Rescue:  The Untold Story of Schindler’s List by Mietek Pemper, 2006.

Festschrift:  ,Die Unvertilgbare, Unauslöschliche Metaphorik in der Lyrik des Holocaust:  Fragmente, Echos, Spuren …’ In  honor of Professor Dr. Erwin Leibfried, Justus Liebig University, 2006.

 Selected Professional/Scholarly Papers

Presented ‘Schreiben im Holocaust’ at International Congress for Professors of German, Warsaw, Poland, July 2011. Proceedings published in Akten des XII,. Internationalen  Germanistenkongresses  Warschau, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 2012.

Presented paper “Remembering the Motherland in Mexican Exile,” at international conference on ‘The Jewish Diaspora in South America’ at The University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, May 2001. (Conference papers published by Rutgers University Press)

Presented paper at the US Holocaust Memorial Library, D.C. on “Audio Video Testimony of Survivors of the French Internment Camps,” August 2000.

“Sanary-sur-Mer—capitale mondiale de la litterature allemande,” paper presented in French at colloquium in Paris, December, 1999, “Europe et Juda1sme, 1919-1939.” Sponsored by the Centre des Etudes Hebra1ques et Juives Modemes et Contemporaines, Paris.

“Terezin Revisited,” presented a paper at the symposium “Art as Survival,” sponsored by the Chicago Opera Theatre,” May 26, 1998.

Gave reading of Else Lasker-Schiiler’s poems of exile at The University of Mass­ Amherst at the premiere of Robert Stem’s settings of “My Blue Piano,” October 1996. “Writings in the French Internment Camps,” a paper presented at the conference

“Perspectives on Holocaust Studies” at Middle Tennessee State University, October 1996.

“Translating Else Lasker-Schiiler into English, a paper presented at an international Else Lasker-Schiiler symposium at Pennsylvania State University, October 1995.

“Theresienstadt and the Final Solution,” a paper presented in the History Department, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, March 1994.

Addressed the Chicago Institute of Facing History and Ourselves, July 1992.

Presented a paper on “Women of the Holocaust,” at Rochester Institute of Technology, April  1992. Invited speaker at Houston Book Fair. Presented paper on Theresienstadt, November  1991.

Presented a paper at an international symposium on Theresienstadt at Mass. College of Art, Boston, “Seeing through Paradise,” April 1991.

Presented a paper on German-Jewish poets at conference on “Jewish Feminism” at Cornell University, February 1990.

“Unmarked Graves: The Women of Theresienstadt,” a paper presented to the faculty of the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 1987.