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LBI NY | Berlin: Closing Borders: Immigration and World War I with Tobias Brinkmann and José C. Moya

LBI New York | Berlin - Center for Jewish History 15 W 16th St, New York, USA

The rise of the United States and Israel as centers of Jewish life is closely tied to immigration. Yet the success story of Jewish immigration obscures the experiences of hundreds of thousands of Jews from Eastern Europe who were displaced during and after the First World War. Wherever they turned they faced closed doors. The...

LBI Jerusalem: An Evening in Honor of Eyal Winter’s Book “Anna’s Children”.

LBI Jerusalem 33 Bustenai Street, Jerusalem, Israel

Anna Winter, who headed the philanthropic association for the Jewish orphanage, announces on the eve of Kristallnacht that the orphanage was set on fire and the children were left without shelter. From this moment on her soul is bound in their soul. Chair: Rachel Livne-Freudenthal (Leo Baeck Institute) Speakers: Dalia Ofer (Hebrew University), Dr. Natalie Naimark...

LBI NY | Berlin: Book Club: Family Declassified with the author Katherine Fennelly

About Family Declassified: Uncovering My Grandfather's Journey from Spy to Children's Book Author Why do people keep deep secrets about their lives and ancestry? In Family Declassified, Katherine Fennelly applies her expertise as a social science researcher to answer this question regarding her maternal grandfather, a Jewish Hungarian immigrant who arrived in the US one...

LBI NY | Berlin: Book Talk: Saints and Liars by Debórah Dwork.

LBI New York | Berlin - Center for Jewish History 15 W 16th St, New York, USA

Marion Kaplan will join Debórah Dwork to discuss her new book, Saints and Liars.   Saints and Liars is a moving history of American relief workers during the Hitler years who sought to save Jews and political opponents targeted by the Nazi regime. Praised by Publishers’ Weekly as “a gripping study of individuals’ operations in...

LBI NY | Berlin: Book Talk: Conversion and Catastrophe by Abraham Rubin.

LBI New York | Berlin - Center for Jewish History 15 W 16th St, New York, USA

Abraham Rubin joins LBI to present his latest book, Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Émigré Autobiography (2024, University of Toronto Press) Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Émigré Autobiography is a collective biography of German-Jewish converts to Christianity, who recounted their spiritual and confessional journeys against the backdrop of the Holocaust and its aftermath. The book...

LBI NY | Berlin: Book Talk: Rupture, Reconciliation, & Visual Storytelling with Stefanie Fischer and Kim Wünschmann

LBI New York | Berlin - Center for Jewish History 15 W 16th St, New York, USA

Stefanie Fischer and Kim Wünschmann will join LBI to discuss their recent graphic history, Oberbrechen: A German Village Confronts Its Nazi Past. Oberbrechen (illustrated by Liz Clarke) chronicles the events of the Holocaust and its aftermath in a small village in rural Germany, through the eyes of historians Fischer and Wünschmann. Based on meticulous research...