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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20261104T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20261104T203000
DTSTAMP:20261016T134459Z
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SUMMARY:Light and Shadow in German-Jewish History and Culture
DESCRIPTION:Join Us for the First Session of the Annual Series:\n  \nEmilia Perroni\, clinical psychologist\, Tel Aviv University and the Erich Neumann Israeli Institute for Jungian Psychology\, in conversation with Dr. Avi Bauman\, Bar-Ilan University and the Erich Neumann Israeli Institute for Jungian Psychology \n“Illuminating the Shadow”: On the Importance of Recognizing the Shadow on the Personal and Collective Levels\, in Light of Carl Jung’s Teachings and Beyond\n  \nOnline event. Register here.
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/light-and-shadow-in-german-jewish-history-and-culture/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:LBI Jerusalem,Vortrag
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20261111T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20261111T203000
DTSTAMP:20261016T135209Z
CREATED:20261016T134721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261016T135209Z
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SUMMARY:Screening of the short film: The Little Dictator
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Nurith Cohn\, Israel\, 2015\, 28 minutes \nFollowed by a conversation between screenwriter and actor Emanuel Cohn and Prof. Ofer Ashkenazi \nAdmission is free\, but advance registration is required.
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/screening-of-the-short-film-the-little-dictator/
LOCATION:LBI Jerusalem\, 33 Bustenai Street\, Jerusalem\, 9104201\, Israel
CATEGORIES:LBI Jerusalem
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261118T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261118T070000
DTSTAMP:20261028T161339Z
CREATED:20261028T161339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261028T161339Z
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SUMMARY:The United States: A Promised Land Behind the Barrier of Affidavits
DESCRIPTION:with Beth B. Cohen \n\n\nDrawing on her book Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America\, historian Beth B. Cohen examines the reception and resettlement of Holocaust survivors in the United States in the aftermath of World War II. Through extensive archival research\, she explores how immigration policy\, American Jewish organizations\, and broader social attitudes shaped survivors‘ efforts to rebuild their lives. By bringing institutional records into conversation with personal testimony\, the talk illuminates the lived experience of refugee resettlement. \nThis event is part of Many Promised Lands?\, LBI’s 2026 lecture series covering migration of German-Jewish refugees after 1946. \nThis programming is made possible through the generous support of the Levi-Thalheimer Fund for Research and Public History. \n\n\n\n\n\nBeth B. Cohen is a historian specializing in the Holocaust\, with a focus on survivors’ postwar experiences in the United States. She is the author of two books; Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America (2007)\, supported by a USHMM postdoctoral fellowship and Child Survivors of the Holocaust: The Youngest Remnant and the American Experience\, finalist for the Wiener Library’s Fraenkel Prize (2018) as well as numerous other publications. She has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from DAAD\, the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute\, the Holocaust Education Foundation\, Feinstein Center for American Jewish History and others. Cohen has taught at California State University\, Northridge\, UCLA\, Loyola Marymount University\, and Chapman University. She has also served as a consultant to documentary filmmakers\, educational organizations\, and museums\, including PBS’s Frontline\, the BBC’s Auschwitz: The Nazis and The Final Solution\, the Tenement Museum\, the United Nations\, and the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous. Cohen received her PhD from Clark University’s Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and her master’s degree from Harvard University. She currently serves as Director of Education at the JFCS Holocaust Center in San Francisco. \n\nOnline.
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/the-united-states-a-promised-land-behind-the-barrier-of-affidavits/
CATEGORIES:LBI New York | Berlin
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20261118T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20261118T203000
DTSTAMP:20261016T135529Z
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SUMMARY:On the Margins – Simon Bernfeld\, Biography (1860-1940
DESCRIPTION:Join Us For An Evening In Honor Of The Book:\nBy Dr. Maya Shabbat\n  \nChair: Dr. Ahuva Liberles\nGreetings: Prof. Guy Miron\nSpeakers: Dr. Emma Zohar\, Prof. Shmuel Feiner\, Prof. Motti Zalkin\nRespondent: Dr. Maya Shabbat \n  \nThe event will take place at the institute\, you can also join via Zoom\nFree admission\, registration required.
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/on-the-margins-simon-bernfeld-biography-1860-1940/
LOCATION:LBI Jerusalem\, 33 Bustenai Street\, Jerusalem\, 9104201\, Israel
CATEGORIES:LBI Jerusalem,Vortrag
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261119T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261119T190000
DTSTAMP:20260331T110833Z
CREATED:20260323T100820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260331T110833Z
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SUMMARY:The German Case: What It Tells Us About Antisemitism Worldwide
DESCRIPTION:19 November 2026\, 5:30PM – 07:00 PM\nGerman Historical Institute London\nLondon WC1A 2NJ\n\n  \nOnce the driving force of antisemitism worldwide\, Nazi Germany waged war against Jews everywhere\, radicalising antisemitism in word and deed. After 1945\, Germany was pacified by the Allies\, and open antisemitism became the antithesis of the new democratic Staatsräson. Yet today\, antisemitism has returned – from the far right\, parts of the radical left\, Islamist movements\, and the centre of society. This lecture examines the German case in a global context and asks whether the postwar Staatsräson – the commitment to Jewish life and Israel’s security – can hold\, and what this means for Europe and the wider Jewish diaspora. \nGünther Jikeli is the Erna B. Rosenfeld Associate Professor for the Study of Antisemitism and Interim Director of the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University Bloomington. His research focuses on contemporary antisemitism\, conspiracy ideologies\, and online hate speech in Europe and the United States. \nAdmission is free\, please register ➚ here. \nOverview of the 2026 Lecture Series.
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/the-german-case-what-it-tells-us-about-antisemitism-worldwide/
LOCATION:German Historical Institute\, London\, WC1A 2NJ
CATEGORIES:LBI London,Veranstaltungsreihe,Vortrag
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20261119T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Jerusalem:20261119T193000
DTSTAMP:20261016T140853Z
CREATED:20261016T135828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261016T140853Z
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SUMMARY:Challenges and Opportunities
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first session of the Oral History Workshop for the academic year 5787:\nDr. Neta Dan\, Academy of the Hebrew Language\nThe Bar-Adon Collection on the History of the Revival of Spoken Hebrew: Challenges and Opportunities\n  \nChair: David Amitai\, Archive of the Academy of the Hebrew Language \nOnline Event\, registration required.
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/challenges-and-opportunities/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:LBI Jerusalem,Veranstaltungsreihe,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261119T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261119T202000
DTSTAMP:20261028T160805Z
CREATED:20261028T160805Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261028T160805Z
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: The Realist
DESCRIPTION:Hans Morgenthau and the Purpose of American Politics\n\nAuthor David M. Sacks will join the LBI to discuss his book The Realist: Hans Morgenthau and the Purpose of American Power. This definitive biography charts Morgenthau’s journey from escaping Nazi Germany to becoming an intellectual architect of American foreign policy realism during the Cold War. Sacks will engage in conversation with Gideon Rose to examine how Morgenthau’s philosophy reshaped international relations and whether it still applies to global politics today. They will explore how a life forged in trauma produced insights that continue to define global strategy. A Q&A and book signing will follow the conversation. \n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Sacks is a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the author of The Realist: Hans Morgenthau and the Purpose of American Power\, the first biography of the German-American political theorist who pioneered realism. In addition to writing about Morgenthau\, Mr. Sacks focuses on U.S.-China\, U.S.-Taiwan\, and cross-Strait relations. His writings have appeared in Foreign Affairs\, The National Interest\, Time\, The Diplomat\, The Hill\, and the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. Prior to joining CFR\, Mr. Sacks worked on political military affairs at the American Institute in Taiwan\, which handles the full breadth of the United States’ relationship with Taiwan in the absence of diplomatic ties. He was also a Princeton in Asia fellow in Hangzhou\, China. He received his M.A. in International Relations and International Economics\, with honors\, from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). At SAIS\, he was the recipient of the A. Doak Barnett Award\, given annually to the most distinguished China Studies graduate. Mr. Sacks received his B.A. in Political Science\, Magna Cum Laude\, from Carleton College. \n\n\n\n\n\nGideon Rose is senior lecturer in discipline at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously\, he was managing editor of Foreign Affairs from 2000 to 2010 and editor from 2010 to 2021. He has also served as associate director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the staff of the National Security Council and deputy director of national security studies at CFR. He is the author of How Wars End (Simon & Schuster\, 2010).
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/book-talk-the-realist/
LOCATION:LBI New York | Berlin – Center for Jewish History\, 15 W 16th St\, New York\, 10011\, USA
CATEGORIES:LBI New York | Berlin,Podiumsdiskussion,Vortrag
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261126T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261126T193000
DTSTAMP:20261016T095629Z
CREATED:20261016T094125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261016T095629Z
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SUMMARY:Launch Event: The Library of Lost Books Project at Leo Baeck College Library
DESCRIPTION:The Leo Baeck Institute London invites you to the launch of our Library of Lost Books exhibition at Leo Baeck College Library. The Library of Lost Books is a project that tells the story of one of the most important Jewish scholarly libraries of the twentieth century – and asks the public to help find its missing volumes. \nThe exhibition focuses on the library of the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies (Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums) in Berlin\, founded in 1872 and closed by the Nazis in 1942. Its collection of around 60\,000 books was looted\, dispersed and scattered across the world. Many of these volumes now sit\, unnoticed\, in libraries\, archives and private collections in the UK and beyond. \n  \nRoundtable: Looking back and beyond the Library of Lost Books \nThe vernissage of the exhibition at Leo Baeck College will revisit the work of Bettina Farack\, Dr Irene Aue-Ben-David and Dr Kinga S. Bloch. The women behind the Library of Lost Books (2023-2025) project will address learnings from the implementation of Bettina Farack’s ground-breaking idea to invite the public in a global search for a German-Jewish library that was confiscated by the Nazis and dispersed after 1945. In conversation with Cassy Sachar of Leo Baeck College Library\, they will discuss their experiences in creating this pioneering citizen science project and bringing it to libraries and archives across three continents\, with a particular focus on its implementation at Leo Baeck College in London. \n  \nDr Joseph Cronin\, Director of the Leo Baeck Institute London\, said: \nThe Library of Lost Books is not only about recovering objects; it is about restoring the intellectual world that the Nazis tried to destroy. By working together as ‘book detectives’\, we can help piece together the journeys of these volumes and keep alive the memory of the scholars and communities who once read them. \n  \nThe exhibition will remain on view at Leo Baeck College Library from November 2026 to October 2027 – further information here.
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/launch-event-the-library-of-lost-books-project-at-leo-baeck-college-library/
LOCATION:LBI London\, 44 Russell Sq\, London\, WC1B 4JP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Ausstellung,LBI London
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261203
DTSTAMP:20260922T111729Z
CREATED:20260922T111236Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260922T111729Z
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SUMMARY:Symposium: Geschmack der Erinnerung
DESCRIPTION:Essen\, Familie und Identität im Spiegel deutsch-jüdischer Kochbücher\nDeutsch-jüdische Kochbücher sind weit mehr als Rezeptsammlungen: Sie bewahren Familiengeschichten\, dokumentieren Migration und Verlust\, erzählen von Kontinuitäten und kulturellem Wandel und eröffnen als Quellen des Alltags neue Perspektiven auf Erinnerung\, Zugehörigkeit und Identität. \nDas Symposium des Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin findet in Berlin statt und bringt Wissenschaftler:innen\, Archivar:innen\, Autor:innen\, Köch:innen und Kulturvermittler:innen zusammen. Dabei sind Sharon Adler\, Dr. Sylvia Asmus\, Cynthia Barcomi\, Marina Chernivsky\, Barbara Guggenheim\, Gunther Hirschfelder\, Andrei Aaron Kovacs\, Shelly Kupferberg\, Shani Leiderman\, Antonia Reck\, Gerhard J. Rekel\, Prof. Dr. Miriam Rürup\, Daniela Rusowsky Fuenzalida\, Hermann Simon und Monika Sommerer. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Kochbücher aus den Archiven des Leo Baeck Institute sowie verwandte Sammlungen als historische Quellen\, Träger familiärer Erinnerungen und Ausdruck jüdischer Kulturgeschichte. \nNähere Informationen finden Sie über den Link in der Anmeldung\, die bis zum 16.11.2026 möglich ist. \nDie Veranstaltung wird durch das Bundesministerium des Innern gefördert. \n 
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/geschmack-der-erinnerung/
CATEGORIES:LBI New York | Berlin,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261201T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261201T203000
DTSTAMP:20261020T092506Z
CREATED:20261020T092506Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T092506Z
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Place Envy
DESCRIPTION:With Michael Lowenthal and Tom Beer \n  \n\nMichael Lowenthal will join the LBI to discuss his book Place Envy: Essays in Search of Orientation. He will be joined in conversation by Tom Beer\, editor-in-chief of Kirkus Reviews. \nGrowing up in places where his family had no past\, and met mostly by silence from his Holocaust-refugee grandparents\, Michael Lowenthal longed to be from somewhere. Then he realized he was gay and felt displaced from his own displaced family. \nPlace Envy—his first book of essays after five acclaimed books of fiction—chronicles his quest for orientation in the world: as an agnostic Jew\, as a queer traveler and lover\, and as a writer who can tell or twist the truth. \nYearning for a queer lineage\, he obsesses about an uncle who perished at Bergen-Belsen but then finds\, in his grandmother’s German hometown\, a more surprising legacy. He lives with a Pennsylvania Amish family; accompanies blind gay men on a Mexican cruise; plays jazz with Sun Ra\, the Afrofuturist who claimed to hail from Saturn; and pursues a clarifying love affair in Brazil. Collectively\, these essays recount Lowenthal’s many journeys of dislocation and relocation: to foreign countries and subcultures and to the riskiest shores of family and self. \n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Lowenthal is the author of a story collection\, Sex With Strangers\, and four novels: The Same Embrace; Avoidance; Charity Girl\, which was a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice” and a Washington Post “Top Fiction of 2007″ pick; and The Paternity Test\, an Indie Next selection and a Lambda Literary Award finalist. His short stories and essays have appeared in Tin House\, Ploughshares\, the Southern Review\, Guernica\, True Story\, and the Kenyon Review\, and have been widely anthologized\, in such volumes as Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge\, Bestial Noise: The Tin House Fiction Reader\, and Best New American Voices 2005. He has also written for the New York Times Magazine\, Boston Magazine\, the Washington Post\, the Boston Globe\, Out\, and many other publications. His memoir-in-essays\, Place Envy\, was published in 2026. \n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto credit: John Paraskevas\n\n\nTom Beer is the editor-in-chief of Kirkus Reviews\, which has been publishing book reviews since 1933. He was previously an editor at Newsday and Out magazine\, and served as the president of the National Book Critics Circle. He lives in Brooklyn. \n\nThe event is free of admission\, get your ticket here.
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/book-talk-place-envy/
LOCATION:LBI New York | Berlin – Center for Jewish History\, 15 W 16th St\, New York\, 10011\, USA
CATEGORIES:LBI New York | Berlin,Lesekreis
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261203T070000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261203T083000
DTSTAMP:20261016T095602Z
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SUMMARY:Europeans in the Raj: German Jews and the Government of India Act\, 1935
DESCRIPTION:How did German Jews experience life as refugees from Nazism in the British Empire? Scholars of the Holocaust have often turned to frameworks of racial triangulation to answer this question\, emphasizing Jews’ ‘Other-ing’ in Nazi Germany to place refugees ‘in-between’ the binaries of coloniser and colonised\, European and non-European. This talk\, however\, takes a deep dive into the history of Indian constitutional development and legislative reform to understand the place of Holocaust refugees in the racialised socio-political hierarchy of the British Raj. Focusing on the Government of India Act\, 1935\, Kaul shows how German Jews became white Europeans in the British Raj. In doing so\, she calls on scholars to reframe their attention to the essential contexts\, at once local and imperial\, that structured Holocaust ‘refugeedom’ in the colonial and semi- colonial world. \nPragya Kaul Guido is a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan’s Department of History and Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. Her dissertation\, Refugees in Empire: The Holocaust and Britain’s India\, has been supported by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, the German Historical Institute\, the Leo Baeck Institute\, and the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. \n\nThis year’s lecture series explores the diverse ways in which the German past shapes its present – in memory\, identity\, and political culture. From the everyday complicity of the German bourgeoisie under National Socialism to Jewish life and Holocaust commemoration in the GDR\, these lectures illuminate the lingering legacies and unresolved tensions of the 20th century. They also turn outwards\, tracing the paths of German- speaking Jewish refugees outside Europe and questioning the persistence and transformation of antisemitism today. Together\, they offer critical insights into the afterlife of the German past and its significance for the moral and political questions of our time. \nLectures in this series will be held at the German Historical Institute London\, 17 Bloomsbury Square\, London WC1A 2NJ\, and will also be live streamed on Zoom. Admission is free\, but places are strictly limited and must be reserved in advance via Eventbrite. Lectures will begin promptly; latecomers may not be admitted. \nZoom links will be shared with registered participants closer to the date of each event. Further details will be circulated via our mailing list\, social media channels\, and website. \nOrganised by the Leo Baeck Institute London in cooperation with the German Historical Institute London. \nOverview of the 2026 Lecture Series \nAdmission free\, please register here.
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/europeans-in-the-raj-german-jews-and-the-government-of-india-act-1935/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:LBI London
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SUMMARY:Book Club: The Director by Daniel Kehlmann
DESCRIPTION:With Professor Anjeana K. Hans \n  \n\nG.W. Pabst\, one of cinema’s greatest directors of the 20th century\, was filming in France when the Nazis seized power. To escape the horrors of the new and unrecognizable Germany\, he fled to Hollywood. But now\, under the blinding California sun\, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo\, the Hollywood actress whom he made famous\, can help him. \nWhen he receives word that his elderly mother is ill\, he finds himself back in his homeland of Austria\, which is now called Ostmark. Pabst\, his wife\, and his young son are suddenly confronted with the barbaric nature of the regime. So\, when Joseph Goebbels—the minister of propaganda in Berlin—sees the potential for using the European film icon for his directorial genius and makes big promises to Pabst and his family\, Pabst must consider Goebbels’s thinly veiled order. While Pabst still believes that he will be able to resist these advances\, that he will not submit to any dictatorship other than art\, he has already taken the first steps into a hopeless entanglement. \nKehlmann’s latest oeuvre explores the complicated relationships and distinctions between art and power\, beauty and barbarism\, cog and conspirator. \n(Review: Amazon). \nThe Author \nDaniel Kehlmann was born in Munich and lives in Vienna\, Berlin and New York \nHis novels include: Measuring the World\, Me & Kaminski\, Fame\, F\, You Should Have Left and Tyll\, and he has won numerous prizes\, including the Candide Prize\, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation\, the Doderer Prize\, The Kleist Prize\, the WELT Literature Prize\, and the Thomas Mann Prize. \nTyll\, in a translation by Ross Benjamin\, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020. Measuring the World was translated into more than 40 languages and is one of the biggest successes in post-war German literature. The Director\, his 14th novel\, also translated into English by Ross Benjamin\, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026. \n\n\n\n\n\nOur Guest \nAnjeana K. Hans is Professor of German Studies and affiliated faculty in Cinema and Media Studies at Wellesley College. Her research focuses on early silent film and on German and Austrian film of the 1930s\, with emphases on questions of gender\, identity\, and subjectivity\, on the representation of difference\, and on exile and migration. Her publications include work on gender in Weimar cinema (Gender and the Uncanny in Films of the Weimar Republic\, Wayne State UP\, 2014)\, on the varied cultural anxieties and fascinations contextualizing Weimar film (Warning Shadows\, Camden House\, 2021)\, and on independent films in Austria (“‘Komisch ist die Welt\, wie ein Traum:’ Franziska Gaal’s Verwechslungskomödien and the Exile’s Crisis of Identity\,” in Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Film\, eds. Barbara Hales and Valerie Weinstein\, Berghahn Books\, 2021). She is currently working on a study of films produced in Austria between 1933 and 1938 by filmmakers forced out of the German film industry\, in which she examines how they engage with the experience of exile and expulsion through narrative and aesthetic. \n\nThe event is free of admission\, register here.
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/book-club-the-director-by-daniel-kehlmann/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:LBI New York | Berlin
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SUMMARY:Jewish Identity and the Politics of Reconciliation in Today’s Germany
DESCRIPTION:Lecture with Max Czollek\, Lyricist and Essayist\, Germany/USA . \nThis lecture is the LBI Summer Lecture 2027 \n  \nMore infos coming soon.
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/jewish-identity-and-the-politics-of-reconciliation-in-todays-germany/
LOCATION:Senate House London
CATEGORIES:LBI London
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