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SUMMARY:"What Is Good and What Is Evil" – Thomas Mann as a Political Activist
DESCRIPTION:Mo.\, 8. Sept. 2025 \n 18:30–20:30 GMT-4 \nCenter for Jewish History (map)\n15 W. 16th St.\nNew York\, NY 10011 \nFormat: personal \nThe event is free\, get your tickets ➚ here. \n  \n  \n  \nLecture and Conversation with Kai Sina & Samantha Rose Hill \n  \n\n\n\nJoin the Leo Baeck Institute New York and the Thomas Mann House Los Angeles for a keynote lecture by German Studies scholar and literary critic Kai Sina on Thomas Mann’s political activism during his exile in the U.S.\, including his strong support for Zionism. The lecture will be followed by a conversation with writer and scholar Samantha Rose Hill\, exploring how ideas and forms of political engagement crossed the Atlantic\, how Mann’s activism can be understood within the U.S. literary discourse at the time\, and how exiled writers spoke out in different ways. The conversation will be moderated by Benno Herz\, Program Director at the Thomas Mann House Los Angeles. \nFor decades\, Thomas Mann was rarely taken seriously as a political intellectual—when he wasn’t outright dismissed. This persistent misperception is rooted deeply in the (West) German postwar mentality and intellectual culture. It is time to revise it decisively. Mann was a public figure who\, over many years\, advocated for freedom and democracy—resolutely\, independently\, and often at personal risk. \nAt the center of Kai Sina’s recent book What Is Good and What Is Evil – Thomas Mann as a Political Activist (Propyläen Verlag\, 2024) is not a systematic political theory\, but a practice of public intervention that shaped Mann’s intellectual self-conception—a form of “social activism” he explicitly affirmed in 1930. In his lecture\, Sina will show that Mann’s political activism did not begin in exile\, but already in the Weimar Republic. Exemplary for this development is Mann’s early and public opposition to antisemitism\, which went hand in hand with a clear\, outspoken endorsement of Zionism. Mann’s support for Zionism\, far from being a gesture of abstract solidarity\, was a deliberate and visible alignment with Jewish self-assertion at a moment of growing nationalist and antisemitic agitation. As early as 1921\, he dismissed the rising right-wing ideology as “swastika nonsense”—a prescient response to the reactionary forces that would soon dominate Germany. \nThe lecture will be followed by a conversation and response with writer and scholar Samantha Rose Hill\, author of Hannah Arendt (Reaktion Books\, 2021). \nThis event is part of „Mann 2025: 150 Years of Thomas Mann.” Learn more about the 150th anniversary of Thomas Mann here. \nThis event is a collaboration between the Leo Baeck Institute New York and the Thomas Mann House. \n\n\nParticipants: \nKai Sina is a professor of modern German literature with a focus on transatlantic literary history at the University of Münster. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago and at Princeton University. He received the Fritz Behrens Foundation’s Science Prize\, and in 2020 he was awarded a Lichtenberg Professorship by the Volkswagen Foundation. Together with Hans Rudolf Vaget\, he is currently preparing an annotated edition of the essays Thomas Mann wrote during his exile. He recently published the books „What Is Good and What Is Evil” – Thomas Mann as a Political Activist and TransAtlantik: Hans Magnus Enzensberger\, Gaston Salvatore\, and Their Magazine for Western Germany. \nSamantha Rose Hill is the author of the critically acclaimed book Hannah Arendt (2021) and the editor and translator of What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt (2024). She is associate faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research in New York City. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, Paris Review\, TLS\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Jewish Review of Books\, Commonweal\, Lapham’s Quarterly\, LitHub\, Aeon\, and the journals Public Seminar\, Contemporary Political Theory\, and Theory & Event. \nBenno Herz is the Program Director at the Thomas Mann House Los Angeles. He is co-editor and co-author of the publications Thomas Mann’s Los Angeles: Stories from Exile 1940-1952 (2022) and Das Thomas Mann House – Politischer Denkort am Pazifik (2023). Herz is a lecturer at UCLA\, teaching classes on German-speaking émigrés in Los Angeles\, and covers related topics for international media outlets such as Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung\, KCRW\, et al.
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/what-is-good-and-what-is-evil-thomas-mann-as-a-political-activist/
LOCATION:LBI New York | Berlin – Center for Jewish History\, 15 W 16th St\, New York\, 10011\, USA
CATEGORIES:Buchvorstellung,LBI New York | Berlin,Lesung
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SUMMARY:Echt genug?
DESCRIPTION:9.9.2025\, 18:00 \nBerlin (genauer Ort wird nach Anmeldung bekannt gegeben) \n  \n  \nKünstliche Intelligenz\, Zeitzeugenschaft und das Versprechen von Authentizität \nMit Dr. Katalin Krasznahorkai („In Echt? – Virtuelle Begegnung mit NS-Zeitzeug:innen“) und Ruth-Anne Damm (Zweitzeugen e. V.) \nModeriert von Stephan-Andreas Casdorff (Tagesspiegel) \nKatalin Krasznahorkai ist Kunsthistorikerin\, Kuratorin und Autorin mit über zwanzig Jahren Erfahrung in der Konzeption und Leitung von internationalen Forschungs- und Kulturprojekten. Nach dem Studium der Kunstgeschichte an der Eötvös Lorand Universität Budapest\, der Humboldt-Universität Berlin und der Universität Wien promovierte sie 2015 an der Universität Hamburg. Mit Stationen am Ludwig Museum Budapest\, dem Collegium Hungaricum Berlin und der Universität Zürich ist sie seit 2022 die Kuratorische Leitung bei der Brandenburgischen Gesellschaft für Kultur und Geschichte und Programmleiterin des Brandenburg Museums für Zukunft\, Gegenwart und Geschichte in Potsdam\, wo sie auch das Projekt „In Echt? Virtuelle Begegnung mit NS-Zeitzeug:innen“ leitet. \nRuth-Anne Damm ist Mitgründerin und Geschäftsführerin des mehrfach ausgezeichneten Vereins ZWEITZEUGEN e. V. Als Zweitzeugin widmet sie sich mit großer Leidenschaft und klarer Vision einer aktiven Erinnerungskultur sowie der Bildungsarbeit gegen Antisemitismus und gruppenbezogene Menschenfeindlichkeit – zunehmend auch unter Einsatz digitaler Zeitzeugenschaft. Zuvor war sie als strategische Markenberaterin tätig\, unter anderem für Borussia Dortmund und Evonik Industries\, sowie im NGO-Bildungssektor für mehr Chancengerechtigkeit. \n Stephan-Andreas Casdorff schreibt seit 1999 für den Tagesspiegel und leitete von 2004 bis 2018 gemeinsam mit Lorenz Maroldt als Chefredakteur die Redaktion. Von September 2018 bis Ende 2024 war er Herausgeber\, seit 2025 ist er Editor-at-Large. Er kommentiert das politische Geschehen\, sowohl im Tagesspiegel als auch in Funk und Fernsehen und bei vielfältigen Veranstaltungen. \nINTERESSE? JETZT HIER ANMELDEN: 9.9. Echt genug? Künstliche Intelligenz\, Zeitzeugenschaft und das Versprechen von Authentizität
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/echt-genug/
CATEGORIES:LBI New York | Berlin,Podiumsdiskussion,Veranstaltungsreihe
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SUMMARY:Lunchtime Lecture: On Migration in German-Jewish History
DESCRIPTION:Mi.\, 10. Sept. 2025\n18:00–19:00 MESZ\nFormat: Online\nThe event is free of admission\, ➚ get your tickets here.\n\n  \n\n\nTobias Brinkmann on Migration in German-Jewish History\nPart 4 of LBI’s 70th Anniversary Lecture Series \nOn September 10 at 12:00 PM EDT\, Tobias Brinkmann will discuss migration in German-Jewish historiography over the past decades. \nAs we look back at the last 70 years of German-Jewish historiography since the founding of the Leo Baeck Institute\, LBI presents a series of seven events focusing on the most important topics in German Jewish history. Each generation of historians witnesses the appearance of different approaches to historical writing. After decades of focusing on the main political events in German-Jewish history and biographies of political leaders\, there has been a turn to microhistory\, the role of common people\, women and children\, minorities\, stories dominated by struggles and failures\, etc. In the new series\, the LBI will present a comprehensive view of seven overarching topics in German Jewish history and ask how their historiography has changed over the decades. \nThis lecture series will take place online. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker: \n\n\nTobias Brinkmann is the Malvin and Lea Bank Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Penn State University\, University Park\, PA. Publications: Between Borders: The Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe (Oxford University Press\, 2024). Sundays at Sinai: A Jewish Congregation in Chicago (University of Chicago Press\, 2012) – finalist for the National Jewish Book Award 2013; (Editor)\, Points of Passage: Jewish Transmigrants from Eastern Europe in Scandinavia\, Germany\, and Britain 1880-1914 (New York: Berghahn\, 2013).
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/lunchtime-lecture-on-migration-in-german-jewish-history/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:LBI New York | Berlin,Vortrag
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SUMMARY:Exhibit Opening: LOST AND FOUND
DESCRIPTION:Mo.\, 15. Sept. 2025 \n18:00–20:00 GMT-4 \nCenter for Jewish History (map)\n15 W. 16th St.\nNew York\, NY 10011 \nFormatPersönlich \nThe event is free of admission\, ➚ get your tickets here. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Life and Art of Samson Schames \nSamson Schames\, a Jewish artist forced to flee Nazi Germany\, found an extraordinary visual language in exile – creating vivid mosaics out of rubble gathered from the bombed streets of London. These haunting works express the devastation and uncertainty of war and survive as early examples of “detritus art”—artworks made from materials typically considered waste or scraps. \nThrough an exploration of Schames’ life in his native Frankfurt am Main and his exiles in London and New York\, LOST AND FOUND traces the development and resilience of an artist across time\, space\, and historical ruptures. Combining works from multiple institutions and private collections on both sides of the Atlantic\, it is the first comprehensive presentation of Schames’ works in the US. \nArt could never repair what Samson Schames lost\, but in that loss\, he sought and found both meaning and a language for expressing it. \nDoors will open at 6:00 PM. Executive Director Emeritus William H. Weitzer will give welcome remarks at 7:15\, followed by a reception.
URL:https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/exhibit-opening-lost-and-found/
LOCATION:LBI New York | Berlin – Center for Jewish History\, 15 W 16th St\, New York\, 10011\, USA
CATEGORIES:Ausstellung,LBI New York | Berlin
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