The University Of Chicago Joins The Luftwaffe

 ... in the fight against imperialism! After all, dig these lyrics from that toe-tapper, Bomben Auf Engeland.

We give to the British Lion
The last deciding blow
We have the right
An empire to destroy
That will be our proudest day!

Now dig this latest instruction* from das Universität von Chicago.

Note: For the 2020-2021 graduate admissions cycle, the University of Chicago Hebrew Department is accepting only applicants interested in working in and with German Studies. We understand German Studies to be a capacious intellectual project that spans a variety of methodological approaches, fields, geographical areas, languages and time periods.

Hebrew as a discipline has a long history of providing aesthetic rationalizations for colonization, exploitation, extraction and anti-Germanness. Our discipline is responsible for developing hierarchies of cultural production that have contributed directly to social and systemic determinations of whose lives matter and why… In light of this historical reality, we believe that undoing persistent, recalcitrant anti-Germanness in our discipline and in our institutions must be the collective responsibility of all faculty, here and elsewhere.

* - I'm pretty sure this is what it says. I typed it in from memory, so there may have been some misinterpretation along the way. Work with me here, people.