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Stolpertexte: Voices from the Past
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Thu, 21 Mar 2024 13:00 -0400 (adjusted to your local time)
At the Capa-Haus in Leipzig, LBI will present its newest project, in which German-language writers explore the LBI Archives in short literary texts called Stolpertexte.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 13:00–14:00 -0400 (adjusted to your local time)
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Join YIVO and LBI for a discussion with Barbara Mann about the "little magazine," a staple of modernist Jewish culture which flourished in the Weimar Republic.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:30–20:00 -0400 (adjusted to your local time)
Join AJHS and LBI for a discussion with The Money Kings author Daniel Schulman and Susie J. Pak author of Gentlemen Bankers.
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 14:00–15:30 -0400 (adjusted to your local time)
This month, the LBI Book Club will read and discuss The Trial by Franz Kafka with Professor of German Literature, Vivian Liska.
Sun, 31 Mar 2024 13:00–15:00 -0400 (adjusted to your local time)
This symposium marks the first Hebrew translation of Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem in seventy-five years.
Tue, 2 Apr 2024 18:30 -0400 (adjusted to your local time)
Deutsches Haus at NYU and LBI invite you to Stolpertexte in Translation, a reading of student's Stolpertexte, a short documentary theater piece and discussion with Max Czollek and more.
Sun, 7 Apr 2024 17:30–19:00 -0400 (adjusted to your local time)
Visit LBI's new exhibition Crossing the Ocean and explore how the experience of German-speaking Jews coming to America changed between the 1840s and 1950s.
Mon, 8 Apr 2024 18:00 -0400 (adjusted to your local time)
Presenting “I Just Let Life Rain Down on Me, Selected Letters and Reflections of Rahel Levin Varnhagen," a conversation with editor and translator Peter Wortsman and author and translator Tess Lewis.
Mon, 15 Apr 2024 19:30 -0400 (adjusted to your local time)
Join LBI, ASJM, and YIVO for the NYC premiere of a film by David Starobin, “String Trio, Los Angeles 1946” a documentary about Arnold Schoenberg.
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 19:30 -0400 (adjusted to your local time)
Opera and Democracy: Songs From Exile, introduces two German-Jewish composers in American exile through a night of music and discussion.
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:00–15:30 -0400 (adjusted to your local time)
This month, the LBI Book Club will read and discuss Welten by Gertrud Kolmar with author Friederike Heimann.
Tue, 7 May 2024 19:00–21:00 -0400 (adjusted to your local time)
Join YIVO and LBI for a concert exploring Yiddish and Hebrew songs of the Weimar Republic.
Wed, 8 May 2024 19:30 -0400 (adjusted to your local time)
LBI and ASJM invite you to a Hanns Eisler Cabaret performed by Soprano Karyn Levitt.
Wed, 15 May 2024 19:30 -0400 (adjusted to your local time)
LBI and ASJM invite you to a night of the old world and the new to produce the uniquely hybrid sound of Hollywood’s Golden Age written by émigré and exiled composers.
Tue, 21 May 2024 18:30–20:00 -0400 (adjusted to your local time)
Hillel Kieval revisits crucial aspects of Kafka’s life, work, and intellectual relationships, to explore what it meant to be both Jewish and a citizen of Prague before and after the First World War.
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