WIFE OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BILL BRADLEY TO SPEAK ON WEST GERMAN LITERATURE AND THE HOLOCAUST AT PITT

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 1 -- "What have West Germans been telling themselves about what happened during World War II and how well do they really understand the Holocaust?"

Ernestine Schlant Bradley, scholar, author and wife of presidential candidate Bill Bradley, will address these delicate and deeply controversial questions when she visits the University of Pittsburgh at 2:30 p.m., on Tuesday, Nov. 9. Her presentation, titled after her book, "The Language of Silence: West German Literature and the Holocaust," will be held in Room 2M56 of the Forbes Quadrangle Building, 230 S. Bouquet Street on the Pitt campus. A reception and book signing will follow.

Bradley is a professor of German and Comparative Literature in the Department of German and Russian Studies at Montclair State University in New Jersey. Her examination of major West German novelists from 1949 to

1990 has led her to conclude that the majority of works are characterized by "the language of silence."

Bradley also will welcome questions about her husband's presidential campaign.

Bradley's visit is sponsored by Pitt's University Center for International Studies, European Union Center and the Germanic Languages & Literatures Department, and the American Council on Germany. The lecture is free and open to the public.

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