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1999 Programs
Fall
1999
Wedneday,
October
13,
1999
Dr. Antonia Fianne,
Professor of History, University of
Melbourne
and author of a newly published book on Jewish emigration from Shanghai
to Australia.
Improbable
Destinations: Shanghai 1939, Melbourne 1949
Dr.
Fianne's talk
will
focus on her research into the geographical dispersion of the German
and Austrian Jews from the Shanghai Ghetto, a surprising number of whom
ended up as permanent residents of Melbourne. This is a new and
exciting chapter in the endlessly fascinating Shanghai story.
Monday,
October
18, 1999
Gad Beck,
Past director, Jewish Adult Education Center in
Berlin, and author of:
An
Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin (University
of Wisconsin Press, 1999)
In
this
unprecedented
memoir by a gay, Jewish Holocaust survivor, originally published in
Germany in 1995, Mr. Beck describes his resistance work throughout the
war, inspired by his attempts to try to save his young Jewish lover.
Mr. Beck will speak on his vivid recollections which offer a unique
perspective on the daily task of survival under the Nazis.
Wednesday,
October 27,
1999
Dr. Ursula Munzel,
Historian, author and wife of the German
Political Consul in New York, Dr. Rainer Munzel, will speak on: The
Emigration of German Jews to America in the 19th Century
Well before the
forced exodus of Jews from Germany during the Hitler years, there was
an emigration a century earlier of German Jews who did not leave their
homeland under duress but who nonetheless felt compelled to seek refuge
in America. Dr. Munzel will address the motivations and consequences of
this early exodus.
Wednesday,
November 17,
1999
LEO BAECK INSTITUTE 5th ANNUAL DINNER
Prof. Peter Gay & Mrs. Ruth Gay, Dinner Co-Chairs
The Honorable W. Michael
Blumenthal, President and Chief
Executive, The Jewish Museum, Berlin, will be the Featured Speaker and
Recipient of the Leo Baeck Medal
After a stunning
career in U.S. Government and industry, Dr. Blumenthal now heads The
Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany's most recent and visible repository
of our special heritage. Dr. Blumenthal believes the mission of the
Museum is to ensure that Germans recognize Jews not just as victims,
but equally as productive citizens of their country. Watch your mail
for reservation forms for the Dinner which will be held at the Harmonie
Club.
Monday,
November
22,
1999
ANNUAL LEO BAECK MEMORIAL LECTURE
Dr. Ernst Cramer,
Former Senior Editorial Writer and Deputy
Chairman of the Board of the Axel Springer Publishing Group will speak
on: The
State of German Jewry at the Approach of the Millenium
Following his
talk,
Dr. Cramer will be presented with the Leo Baeck Medal which was awarded
to him two years ago.
Spring
1999
Thursday,
January
14,
1999
Marc J. Masurovsky,
Director and cofounder of the Holocaust
Art Restitution Project (HARP)
Stolen
Art: How the Nazis Cornered the Market.
This
Washington-based
organization was established to create an international database to
assist in the identification and restitution of ownership claims
involving cultural property. Mr Masurovsky is a historian who has been
doing research in this area since the 1970s.
Thursday,
March
4, 1999
Mark M. Anderson,
Chair, Department of Germanic Studies,
Columbia University
Hitler's
Exiles
Professor
Anderson's
important new book, quickly sold out in its first printing, presents a
firsthand look at this historic migration of 130,000 German-speaking
refugees who took this historic journey of escape and exile to
resettlement in America. Their stories are familiar, yet always
captivating.
Tuesday,
April
27, 1999
Deborah Hertz,
Professor at Sarah Lawrence College
High
Culture Mothers and the Birth of Reform Judaism
In
the
nineteenth
century traditional Judaism assigned no positive role to either female
spirituality or to the more modern "bourgeois" dimensions of religious
life. Professor Hertz will focus on how a few educated, cultured and
disaffected women became determined to find ways to reform and renew
Judaism to meet their needs, as an alternative to converting out of the
faith.
Tuesday,
May 11,
1999
Noah Isenburg,
Professor of German Studies at Wesleyan
University
Beyond
Symbiosis: Rethinking German-Jewish Modernism.
Between the
First
World War and the Third Reich a variety of innovative Jewish thinkers
attempted to interpret the newly emerging Jewish identity and the way
it was represented in German culture. Professor Isenburg will examine
the intellectual evolution of German-Jewish modernism in the work of
Kafka, Zweig, Benjamin, and Wegener.
Monday,
May 17,
1999
Gottfried Wagner
Twilight
of the Wagners
In
this
revealing and
very personal memoir written to unveil the Wagner legacy, Richard
Wagner's great grandson Gottfried looks at the family's relationship to
Hitler, with Bayreuth, and especially with himself.
Wednesday,
May
26, 1999
Rabbi Dr. Arthur Hertzberg,
LBI Trustee, professor, author
Bildung
and its Misunderstandings.
Internationally
respected author, scholar, teacher and rabbi Arthur Hertzberg will take
an iconoclastic look at the watershed era of Bildung,
the age
of reason and cultural enlightenment.
Thursday,
June
17, 1999
Jay M. Winter;
Professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge,
England; Visiting Scholar, Yale University
World
War I and the Transformation of the European World.
In
conjunction
with
the LBI exhibit Fighting for
the Fatherland: The Patriotism of Jews
in World
War I, Professor Winter's
lecture will focus on how the war brought
the old and the new into direct conflict and began the descent into
barbarism that continued well after the Armistice.
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